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Kanoa

About 878 American babies have been named Kanoa since 1971, most of them around 2010. In 2025 it ranked 4,396th. About 870 Kanoas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kanoa boys named Kanoa

By the numbers

Total US births
878
Estimated living today
870
Median age today
15
Peak year
2010
Best rank
2,579th
Rank in 2025
4,396th
First recorded
1971
Girls / boys
11 / 867

How old the living Kanoas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 878 babies given the name since 1971, about 870 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kanoa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kanoa is most concentrated in Hawaii (192.6×), California (4.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular boys’ names the year Kanoa peaked:

All the names of 2010

Kanoa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Kanoa 5 5,278th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.