Kahina is from the Arabic Al-Kāhinah (the priestess/diviner) — applied to a Berber queen by Arab chroniclers. Dihya (al-Kāhinah, c. 585-c. 703 CE); one of the most-iconic figures in North African and Berber history — venerated by modern Berber/Amazigh activists across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and the broader Imazighen diaspora; her name has become a symbol of indigenous North African resistance and feminine leadership; statues and monuments to Dihya stand in Algeria including the iconic statue at Khenchela; appears in countless Algerian and Tunisian songs, novels, and films. Princess Kahina — modern Berber heritage naming. Kahina Loumi — Algerian-French actress.
and North African history.
Kahina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kahina reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.