Kena was the #7,885 girls' name in the US in 2025 (13 babies).
Kena as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
2025
#7,885 (13)
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2024
#6,167 (19)
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2023
#6,680 (17)
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2022
#6,229 (19)
#3,534 (6)
2020
#10,250 (9)
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2019
#7,342 (15)
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2018
#8,617 (12)
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2017
#7,840 (14)
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2016
#10,113 (10)
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2015
#10,866 (9)
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2014
#9,517 (11)
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2013
#5,834 (22)
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2012
#11,257 (9)
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2011
#8,196 (14)
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2010
#10,451 (10)
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The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1975 at #1,459.
Rising over the last five years.
First recorded in the US in 1947.
A comeback: it faded for decades and is rising again.
In 2023, 65% of US babies named Kena were girls.
How common is it?
about 1 in 130,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.