Kana
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Kana is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Kana mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Kana a girl's or a boy's name?
Kana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Kana, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2006, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1956.
Half of all the girls named Kana in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,085 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,250 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,683 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,307 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,440 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,068 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,734 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,707 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,413 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,656 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,153 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,075 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,538 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,467 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,962 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,562 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,609 |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,982 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,775 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,189 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,957 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,386 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,641 |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,766 |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,324 |
Names like Kana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Noa Kalani Keyla Layla Kailani Kaylani Kira Kyla Nalani Kali Kaia Kiara
Names related to Kana
More Japanese names
Kobe Kaizen Raiden Ren Akari Kenzo Ronin Kyomi Akira Yuna Emi Kiyomi Kairi Miya Kenji Reo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kana, updated 20 October 2026.