What does Kiana mean in Hawaiian?
Kiana is a Hawaiian girl name that means divine, Hawaiian form of Diana. The name comes from borrowed from Diana. It is pronounced kee-AH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kiana belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven.
Diana in Hawaiian
Kiana is the Hawaiian form of Diana, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Diana means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Diana in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Kiana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kiana are i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kiana a boy or girl name?
Kiana is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kiana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 25,936 U.S. babies named Kiana since 1962, but that spelling is mostly an American name of its own, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 961 babies born in the state were named Kiana from 1975 to 2021, with a peak of 56 in 1996. 121 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kiana?
Kiana has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.