Entry № 5464 · Hawaiian origin

Kiana Kiana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kee-AH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Divine; Hawaiian Diana"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hawaiian)

A name that means "divine; hawaiian diana".

Kiana is best known as a Hawaiian form of Diana, carrying that ancient name's sense of the divine and the moon-bright.

Bright and gently exotic, Kiana is Diana with a Pacific lilt.

Divine — a Hawaiian Diana.

The name in its native script.

Kiana
Transliteration
Kiana
Pronunciation
/ kiˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kiana stands.

Kiana 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.

Kianas before her.

Real people
Kiana Davenport
Hawaiian-American novelist.
born 1943
In fiction

Names connected to Kiana.

The number behind Kiana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kiana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.