Kana is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kana in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kana in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kana by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kana ranks at #6,125. That means there are 6,124 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kana.
In fact, the name Kana hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kana wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1995, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 3,844, 24 parents chose it in 1995 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kana, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kana a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 5,851, for a total of 17 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kana seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Meeting a woman or girl named Kana is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Kana can be found in only two: California and Illinois. No other state currently has residents named Kana. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Kana living in one state or another (if your name is Kana and you live outside of California or Illinois, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kana is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00062% of all female residents are named Kana – that’s just one in 162,097! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 97 women with that name. So, if your name is Kana, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kana is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kana, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kana
Kana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kana sounds like this:
