Kohana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- koh-HAH-nah
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Kohana is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Kohana mean?
Japanese: Japanese name; meaning depends on the characters used
Hana means flower in Japanese, and Kohana can be written with characters for small and flower.
Is Kohana a girl's or a boy's name?
Kohana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kohana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Kohana, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2009, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Kohana in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kohana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
Names like Kohana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaylani, Kailani, Kyomi, Kehlani, Yuna, Kalani, Kiara, Briella, Kiyomi, Ailany, Mckenna, Keyla
Names related to Kohana
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Akira, Emi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen, Sora
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, “Kohana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kohana, updated 20 October 2026.