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Kapena

Boys' name

Captain

Kapena has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1988, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Kapena, 2024

1 in 669,000

Kapena over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kapena: meaning, origin, and history

Captain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kapena means

Kapena means “captain”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kapena is used in Hawaiian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Kapena between 1980 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,436 in 1988.

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.

How common is Kapena?

Kapena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kapena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kapena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kapenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kapena was born before 2002 — so the typical Kapena is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Kapena 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (15)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,436
1988

Spellings of Kapena

Kapena is not the most common spelling — Kaden is, with 74.8% against Kapena's 0.08%.

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 Kapena is used

Across 1910–2025, Kapena was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 15,731 across all states with data.

66 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 16,667

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. Kapena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kapena by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,436
1988
Peak year
1988
15 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kapena

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

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Sibling names for Kapena

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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