girls:
435 births since 1979
#5281 (8th percentile)
overall:
435 births since 1979
#7304 (6th percentile)
The name Kiauna is the #7,304 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 435 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 5.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,281 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 435 births since 1979.
Kiauna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Kiauna is available in 33 out of the 37 years between 1979 and 2015. 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.
For girls, Kiauna reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #869) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiauna".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kiauna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.1% confident that Kiauna is pronounced as kee-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-OW-nuh, at 31.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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