Meaning & origin
What it means
Kahana goes back to Aramaic כַּהֲנָא (kahǎnā), meaning “cohen; priest.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Aramaic כַּהֲנָא (kahǎnā, “cohen; priest”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kahana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 0 boys · 19 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 742 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kahana’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Kahana is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 香花. In English usage, Kahana as a surname has a related form in Kane.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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