Kauna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəunə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kauna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 2.2K
- BRBrazil1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kauna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Kauna | 29 |
| NA Namibia | #136 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Kauna | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 847 | 1 in 250K | 847 | Kauna | 13 |
| US United States | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Kauna | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Kauna | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Kauna | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kauna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, genitive singular of kauns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, lodicule
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, lláman-aí hombre que tiene muchas hermacas y níñ* jan hermano* [
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
In Aymara, Huetro
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 847 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 822 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 774 | #9,266 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 680 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 453 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 406 | #16,300 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 227 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 208 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 142 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #9,266 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 19 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kauna?
- A machine transcription gives /kəunə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kauna a male or female name?
- Kauna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kauna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Kauna in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kauna.
- How common is the name Kauna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 847 people named Kauna in 2022, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
- How common is Kauna compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Kauna is the 136th most common given name of 327 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kauna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaunaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kauna” — the 136th most common given name in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.