Kanani is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kanani in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kanani in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kanani by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kanani ranks at #6,870. That means there are 6,869 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 Kanani.
In fact, the name Kanani hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kanani 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 1982, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 3,135, 24 parents chose it in 1982 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kanani, 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 Kanani was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kanani a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 5,448, for a total of 19 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 Kanani seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
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 six letters, the name Kanani is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Kanani 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 Kanani, 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.
Kanani
Kanani
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. Kanani sounds like this:
