Cana

#5,753 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cana has been given to 676 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #5,753 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Cana, 2025

1 in 158,000

Cana over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cana means

Cana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cana is used in Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Cana is pronounced /ˈkɑ.nɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 676 girls were recorded with the name Cana between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,579 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,896 in 2020 to #5,753 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,281 in 2015 to #5,753 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Cana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 158,000; 21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 76,500; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #5,753; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 109,425 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Canas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cana was born before 2006 — so the typical Cana is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 66.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 676; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Cana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −275; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +143; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +4,528; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.10×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 61.8%; Peak was 1999 (34)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,579; 1999

Spellings of Cana

Cana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 11.6% against Cana's <0.01%.

Anna11.6%914,859
Ann6.0%470,261
Sara5.5%436,193
Jane4.8%379,876
Diana4.7%368,487
Ava4.4%344,097
Clara3.8%300,524
Edna3.7%295,116

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cana is used

Across 1910–2025, Cana was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,120,414 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #5,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 143
Best rank ever: #3,579; 1999
Peak year: 1999; 34 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 676
Count in 2025: 21

Names similar to Cana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Mana Iana Vana Kana Canary Miana Ziana Myana Viana Canaan Avana Ohana Lyana Nyana Bana Amana Zyana Canyon Zana Xiana Moana Evana Nana Xana

Sibling names for Cana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Tatianna Kalie Savana Destini Sheridan Savanah Tristan Dasia

For a brother

Donavon Shamar Demarco Jaren Zakary Samual Keven Madison

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