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Kina

#7,692 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Joaquina

Kina has been given to 1,425 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #7,692 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Kina, 2025

1 in 237,000

Kina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Joaquina

the Bible

What Kina means

Kina is a diminutive of Joaquina.

Origin, language, and formation

Kina is used in Cebuano and Hawaiian. Its origins include the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joaquina and Dina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kina is pronounced /ˈki.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,425 girls were recorded with the name Kina between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,846 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,075 in 2020 to #7,692 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,351 in 2015 to #7,692 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 Kina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,692
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kina 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kina was born before 1981 — so the typical Kina is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,425
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Kina 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
−265
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−617
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,341
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1973 (46)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,846
1973

Spellings of Kina

Kina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 17.6% against Kina's 0.02%.

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 Kina is used

Across 1910–2025, Kina was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 299,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Missouri1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Kina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kina around the world

Where Kina 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
    2005–2013
    #5,440
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #616
    in 1981

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.

Kina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,692
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 617
Best rank ever
#1,846
1973
Peak year
1973
46 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,425
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Kina

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

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Sibling names for Kina

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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