Kamakana
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kamakana has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Kamakana, 2014
1 in 741,000
Kamakana over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kamakana?
Kamakana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kamakana sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kamakana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kamakanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kamakana was born before 2009 — so the typical Kamakana is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Kamakana 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (7)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kamakana
Kamakana is not the most common spelling — Makana is, with 96.8% against Kamakana's 3.2%.
- Makana96.8%517
- Kamakana3.2%17
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 Kamakana is used
Across 1910–2025, Kamakana was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 56,631 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kamakana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kamakana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kamakana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kamakana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.