About the name Kana
Kana belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Kana first appears in Social Security records in 1956. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4276 in 1995, and in 2024 19 babies received the name — 860 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.