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Kawana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kawana has been given to 960 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1978, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Kawana, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kawana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kawana means

Kawana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kawana is used in Ulwa (New Guinea).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 960 girls were recorded with the name Kawana between 1957 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1978; its best national rank was #1,436 in 1976.

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 Kawana?

Kawana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kawana 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kawana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kawanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kawana was born before 1978 — so the typical Kawana is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
960
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (503).

Is Kawana 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (79)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,436
1976

Spellings of Kawana

Kawana is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 21.1% against Kawana's 0.30%.

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 Kawana is used

Across 1910–2025, Kawana was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 256,761 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8Mississippi1 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. Kawana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kawana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,436
1976
Peak year
1978
79 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
960
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kawana

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

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Sibling names for Kawana

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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