Kanoa
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 28 babies a year in the US.
Kanoa by the numbers
Kanoa was given to 28 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 47 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Kanoa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kanoa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kanoa
Names that are said the same way as Kanoa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kawenathe glow of torchlight14 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kanoa
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