Kionna
Feminine
Hawaiian has thirteen letters. No d, no r, no s, no t; every syllable ends in a vowel and no two consonants may touch. Every English name that entered the language had to be rebuilt to fit: John became Keoni, Mary became Malia, David became Kawika, and Diana became Kiana.
How old is the name Kionna?
Kionna first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Kionna alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,200 people named Kionna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kionna most popular?
Kionna peaked in 1995, reaching #2125 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 8,792 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Diana to Kionna
The story of Kionna
When missionaries wrote Hawaiian down in the 1820s they used thirteen letters because that is how many sounds the language has, and the consequence for names was drastic. A borrowed name is not translated in Hawaiian; it is rebuilt, sound by sound, using only what the language allows. Elizabeth becomes Elikapeka. William becomes Wiliama. The rebuilt names are then completely ordinary Hawaiian words, which is why Keoni and Malia sound native and are. Kiana is Diana rebuilt that way, and it traveled back into mainland American use in the twentieth century as though it were a new name, which by then it effectively was. Kionna is one of the spellings that followed it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Kionna has no established source. It is closest to Kiana, which in Hawaiian is the reshaped form of Diana, whose own Latin meaning is disputed. It is also reached as a modern American compound built from Ki- and the ending -onna. Neither has been shown, and the name does not carry a documented meaning.
How the name formed
- Diana
- Kiana
- Kionna
Related forms: Kiana
Pronouncing Kionna
kee-ON-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. ky-ON-uh, with a long i at the front, is also used; the spelling gives no way to choose between them.
Nicknames for Kionna
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
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 199463 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2125reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- +14.3%8 in 2025, from 7
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.
Kionna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kiana in Hawaiian — related form
Kionnas among us
people named Kionna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Kionna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kionna
- #10917
- Kionna on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kionna went to 8 girls in 2025, but Kiona and Kyonna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,982 places above the chart.
- Kiona12
- Kionna8
- Kyonna5
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Kionna 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. Kionna'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 Kionna is walking now.
Kionna 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
Kionna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kionna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three open syllables and no consonant cluster anywhere in it.
- Two short forms that sound nothing like each other.
- Every sound in it is easy in English, Spanish and Hawaiian alike.
- Kiana, Keonna and Kianna are all in use, so the spelling will need giving.
- There are two pronunciations in circulation and no way to tell them apart on paper.
- No documented meaning attaches to this spelling, which is worth settling before a child asks.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kionnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Kionna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kionna?
- Kionna is one of 3 recorded spellings. Kiona is the more common one — 12 births in 2025 against 8 for Kionna.
- How popular is the name Kionna in 2025?
- Kionna ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kionna?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Kionna — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kionna with classmates?
- Kionna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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