Kaimana
Masculine · “diamond”
Kaimana is given to both — 1,010 boys and 166 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Kaimana is Hawaiian for a diamond, and the word arrived the way many Hawaiian words did — English diamond rebuilt to fit an alphabet of twelve letters. It also reads as sea power.
How old is the name Kaimana?
Kaimana first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Kaimana alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Kaimana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaimana most popular?
Kaimana peaked in 2007, reaching #2811 nationally. Today it ranks #3583, 772 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From diamond to Kaimana
The story of Kaimana
Hawaiian has eight consonants, so foreign words are rebuilt rather than borrowed: diamond became kaimana, and Diamond Head is Kaimana Hila. The happy accident is that the result reads perfectly well as Hawaiian — kai is the sea and mana is the power that runs through people and places. Whether a family means the gem or the compound, both are genuinely there, and the name is used for boys and girls alike.
Meaningscholars disagree
diamond; sea power
Kaimana is the Hawaiian rendering of the English diamond, as in Kaimana Hila, Diamond Head. It can also be read as the Hawaiian words kai, the sea, and mana, spiritual power, joined — a reading Hawaiian speakers make and enjoy. Both are real.
How the name formed
- diamond
- kaimana
Related forms: Kaimana
Pronouncing Kaimana
ky-MAH-nah
Three or four syllables depending on the speaker; Hawaiian gives kah-ee-MAH-nah with every vowel sounded.
Nicknames for Kaimana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 202244 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2811reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −13.9%31 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaimana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kaimana in Hawaiian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Hawaii, California, Washington.
Kaimanas among us
people named Kaimana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 55,099 born in 2025 was named Kaimana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Adrion test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaimana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adrion climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adrion's path sketches the road Kaimana is walking now.
Kaimana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaimana is headed
Kaimana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaimana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaimana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two genuine readings, one borrowed and one native, both good.
- Kai is a complete short form with standing in several languages.
- Every vowel is sounded, so the spelling and the sound match.
- Mainland speakers compress the vowels and lose the Hawaiian shape.
- It is used for both sexes in Hawaii, so forms may guess wrong.
- The diamond reading is a borrowing rather than a native word, which some will want to know.
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Masculine · #3583 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kaimanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Kaimana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kaimana in 2025?
- Kaimana ranks #3583 among US boy names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaimana?
- About 1 in every 55,099 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaimana — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaimana with classmates?
- Kaimana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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