Kishawna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kishawna has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1990, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Kishawna, 2006
1 in 791,000
Kishawna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kishawna?
Kishawna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 791,000
- 5 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kishawna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kishawna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kishawnas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kishawna was born before 1992 — so the typical Kishawna is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 47.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 38
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Kishawna 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (6)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 5.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kishawna
Kishawna is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 93.1% against Kishawna's 0.08%.
Kishawna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kishawna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kishawna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.