Kena
Kena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197570 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1947
- 1,898people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,835 girls have been named Kena in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 70 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 28%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 63 boys have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
By decade
In 1975, its biggest year
Kena was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Kena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melisapeak 1979
- Anglepeak 1975
- Kamipeak 1980
- Marivelpeak 1981
- Kevapeak 1974
- Kinapeak 1973
- Demetriapeak 1974
- Janelpeak 1971
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.