girls:
1.6k births since 1973
#4111 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1973
#6099 (21st percentile)
The name Kiona is the #6,099 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,649 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 21.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,111 (28.1% percentile) for all time with 1,649 births since 1973.
Kiona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for girls in 1973).
For girls, Kiona reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #776) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 41 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kiona ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 23.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiona".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kiona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kiona is pronounced as kee-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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