Kena is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kena in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kena in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kena by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kena ranks at #7,869. That means there are 7,868 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 Kena.
While Kena is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1975, the name Kena reached its highest popularity with #1,374 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Kena. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Kena.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 24 babies were born with the name Kena. This puts the name in rank 4,671 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 7,801,679 newborns was named Kena that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Kena has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Kena are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Kena is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Michigan. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Kena live in Illinois, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 124,077 would turn around if you called the name Kena across Illinois.
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 Kena 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 Kena 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 Kena, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kena
Kena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
E
N
A
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.
K
E
N
A
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. Kena sounds like this:
