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Kawika

Kawika reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 2,174, and has been recorded 1,218 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 1,200 Kawikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Kawika

By the numbers

Total US births
1,218
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
28
Peak year
1992
Best rank
2,174th
Rank in 2025
5,608th
First recorded
1968

How old the living Kawikas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,218 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Kawika is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kawika is most concentrated in Hawaii (285.5×), California (1.1×).

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

Names of 1992

The most popular boys’ names the year Kawika peaked:

All the names of 1992

Related names

Kawika against another name

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.