Kianah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kee-AH-na
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kianah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Kianah mean?
Modern: spelling of Kiana; modern name; also the Hawaiian form of Diana
Used as the Hawaiian form of Diana, and elsewhere as a modern name linked to Kian or Qiana.
Meaning borrowed from Kiana. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kianah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kianah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kianah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kianah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2000, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Kianah in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 471 girls in the US were given Kianah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #620, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kianah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,786 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
Names like Kianah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah Kennedy Kamiyah Aaliyah Zaniyah Kiara Nevaeh Jaliyah Hadassah Zariah Cassidy Teagan
Other spellings of Kianah
Kiana Kiyana Keyana Keyanna Kiannah Kiyanna Khiana Quiana Qiana
Names related to Kianah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya Oaklynn
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, “Kianah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kianah, updated 20 October 2026.