Kawana

Last seen for girls in 2001 at #15,352

Peak · girls
1976 · 73 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
960
since 1957

Kawana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kawana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976peak #1,433, 1976girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2001#15,3525
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1998#10,1228
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1995#7,51411
1994#8,12210
1993#8,7199
1992#7,06712
1991#4,65021
1990#4,52321
1989#5,83614
1988#6,66611
1987#4,12220
1986#3,89021
1985#3,08429
1984#3,14427
1983#2,78331
1982#2,45139
1981#2,23145
1980#2,06950
1979#1,91754
1978#1,45479
1977#1,66163
1976#1,43373
1975#1,72954
1974#1,73352
1973#1,97941
1972#2,09337
1971#2,34033
1970#3,57717
1969#3,77414
1968#4,22211
1967#5,4577
1966#5,2737
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five girls were named Kawana! It came in at #4,918, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1958–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Kawana
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2001
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 1976 at #1,433 (73 births)
  • Births halved by 1983, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,391
  • Highest: 1 in 19,391 girls born in 1978 were named Kawana (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 360,125 girls born in 2001 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,433 in 1976, was only 1 in 20,070 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 52.4% of all girls named Kawana (503) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s7#4,918 (1957)#4,918
1960s66#3,692 (1964)#4,789
1970s503#1,433 (1976)#1,992
1980s287#2,069 (1980)#3,628
1990s92#4,523 (1990)#7,245
2000s5#15,352 (2001)#15,352

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kawana in 1976

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#1,433
73 births · 1 in 20,070 girls

Top girls' names in 1976

  1. #1Jennifer59,473
  2. #2Amy31,339
  3. #3Melissa25,094
  4. #4Heather24,192
  5. #5Angela22,038
  6. #6Michelle19,550
  7. #7Kimberly18,962
  8. #8Jessica18,368
  9. #9Lisa17,346
  10. #10Amanda15,588
  11. #1,433Kawana73
More about 1976

girls

1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 20,070 of them was named Kawana, which outranked 86.9% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kawana
  1. #1,422Machelle74
  2. #1,422Michel74
  3. #1,422Necole74
  4. #1,433Kawana73
  5. #1,433Annabelle73
  6. #1,433Evangelina73
  7. #1,433Kanika73
  8. #1,446Amberly72
  9. #1,446Brande72
  10. #1,446Catharine72

Tied with 12 names at #1,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. 3,548Rhiannon#4,141#593
  2. 3,533Mackenzie#4,370#837
  3. 3,060Khalilah#3,774#714
  4. 1,663Kenisha#2,612#949
  5. 1,455Latoria#2,411#956
Fallers
  1. 821Nyree#926#1,747
  2. 668Syreeta#778#1,446
  3. 505Cher#994#1,499
  4. 398Kandice#957#1,355
  5. 370Racquel#973#1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1976