Keiana
Feminine · “divine”
Keiana sits where three different naming traditions happen to overlap. Hawaiian has Kiana, which is how the islands write Diana. Persian has Kiana, an old name pointing back to a legendary dynasty of kings. And American naming has the Ki- and Kei- fronts, which combine with -ana without reference to either. All three produce almost the same spelling.
How old is the name Keiana?
Keiana first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Keiana alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,400 people named Keiana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keiana most popular?
Keiana peaked in 1995, reaching #2125 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 12,817 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Diana to Keiana
The story of Keiana
Hawaiian naming took in a large number of English and biblical names during the nineteenth century and reshaped every one of them to fit a sound system with far fewer consonants, producing a whole family of names that look invented and are in fact carefully translated. Kiana is one of those. Persian naming, meanwhile, had its own Kiana from the Shahnameh tradition, entirely independently. Both reached American records in the twentieth century, and both landed among a set of American coinages built from the same syllables. The extra e in Keiana belongs to the American layer, and it is the part of the spelling with no history behind it.
Meaningscholars disagree
divine; or royal, on the Persian reading
Hawaiian has no d and no r, so borrowed names are rebuilt with the sounds the language has — Diana becomes Kiana, David becomes Kawika, and the meaning comes along with the original. On that road the name means what Diana means. The Persian Kiana belongs to the Kayanian kings of the old epics and is read as royal or of the Kianis. The American road has no meaning at all. Which of the three applies is a family fact rather than a linguistic one.
How the name formed
- Diana
- Kiana
- Keiana
Related forms: Kiana · کیانا · Kiana
Pronouncing Keiana
kee-AH-nuh
kee-AH-nuh, three syllables, stress in the middle. The competing reading, kay-AH-nuh, follows the ei the way English usually does and is heard often. Hawaiian gives every vowel its full value, kee-AH-nah, which is close to the first reading and cleaner than either.
Nicknames for Keiana
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199966 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2125reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%5 in 2025, from 10
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.
Keiana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kiana in Hawaiian — related form
- کیانا in Persian — transliteration
- Kiana in Persian — related form
Keianas among us
people named Keiana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Keiana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keiana
- #14942
- Keiana on the 2025 chart
- #918
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keiana went to 5 girls in 2025, but Keyana and Keyanna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 42, which makes it the 918th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,024 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Keiana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Korinne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keiana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Korinne climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Korinne's path sketches the road Keiana is walking now.
Keiana 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
Keiana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keiana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has two real linguistic parents available, and both of them have documented meanings.
- Ana is waiting inside it as a short form that works in a dozen languages.
- Three open syllables sit well against almost any surname.
- The ei can be read two ways and both are natural in English, so the name will be said wrong regularly.
- Kiana is the far more common spelling and the extra e will be dropped by most people writing from memory.
- The three possible origins point in genuinely different directions, so any story a family tells is a choice among them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keianas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Keiana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keiana?
- Keiana is one of 3 recorded spellings. Keyana is the more common one — 20 births in 2025 against 5 for Keiana.
- How popular is the name Keiana in 2025?
- Keiana ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keiana?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Keiana — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keiana with classmates?
- Keiana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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