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Kalena

#3,186 in 2025Girls' name

The + yellow

Kalena has been given to 2,707 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,186 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Kalena, 2025

1 in 66,300

Kalena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalena: meaning, origin, and history

The + yellow

English and Hawaiian

What Kalena means

Kalena means “the + yellow”, associated with ka and lena.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalena is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include English and Hawaiian.

Kalena comes through English Karen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kalena is pronounced /kaˈle.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,707 girls were recorded with the name Kalena between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,025 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,454 in 2020 to #3,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,269 in 2015 to #3,186 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kalena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,186
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalena 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalenas were born

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

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,707
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (744).

Is Kalena 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
−317
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−732
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−917
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.5%
Peak was 2017 (97)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,025
2017

Spellings of Kalena

Kalena is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 49.8% against Kalena's 0.14%.

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 Kalena is used

Across 2016–2025, Kalena was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 372 girls, against 1 in 28,451 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

1269 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 372
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Kalena around the world

Where Kalena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2008–2012
    #6,434
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1985–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kalena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 732
Best rank ever
#2,025
2017
Peak year
2017
97 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,707
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Kalena

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

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Names with a curve like Kalena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kalena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZipporahTalyaRianEmanKeziaAniHananJesslynJoseySamiaYochevedAnnastasia

Sibling names for Kalena

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

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