Kana

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A few things about Kana you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Kana

Kana Kitahara

Japanese association football player

Choose Kana and your child shares a first name with Kana Kitahara, a Japanese association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Kana, like who?” Kana Kitahara's Wikipedia article is available in 38 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: GoToVan from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 133,333 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Kana, 12 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Kana would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryKana first shows up in US birth records in 1956, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 69 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 1995, when it reached #4,217.
• 🍂TrendKana has slipped 3,359 places over the last five years and now sits at #8,362. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.

About the name Kana

Kana is a girl name of Hawaiian and Japanese origin. It has 4 letters and 2 syllables, starting with K and ending in “-ana”. US birth records list Kana for girls from 1956 to 2025, in 59 of those 70 years. Its best year was 1995, when it ranked #4,217 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #8,362, with 12 babies.

Origin:Hawaiian namesJapanese names