girls:
70 births since 1986
#5646 (1st percentile)
boys:
223 births since 1972
#4363 (5th percentile)
overall:
293 births since 1972
#7446 (4th percentile)
The name Kiowa is the #7,446 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 293 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,363 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 223 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,646 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 1986.
Kiowa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Kiowa is available in 34 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 12 years for girls). 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 Kiowa has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kiowa were boys.
For boys, Kiowa reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #787) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kiowa ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 36.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kiowa reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #895) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiowa".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kiowa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.6% confident that Kiowa is pronounced as KAI-oh-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-ow-uh, at 23.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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