girls:
171 births since 1988
#5545 (3rd percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1992
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
186 births since 1988
#7553 (2nd percentile)
The name Kawena is the #7,553 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 186 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,545 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 171 births since 1988. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1992.
Kawena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Kawena is available in 26 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (24 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kawena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kawena reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kawena ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 66.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kawena reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #914) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kawena".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kawena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Kawena is pronounced as kuh-WEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-WAY-nuh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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