Kenya
Kenya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. Its best rank was 275th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1230.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1973894 births
- Best rank
- #275in 1973
- Since 1952
- 27,481people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,340 girls have been named Kenya in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 894 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1970s alone account for 26%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,141 boys have also been given it, 7.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1973, its biggest year
Kenya was the 275th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1973 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Kimberly and Lisa. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Kenya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zabrinapeak 1977
- Shantipeak 2003
- Keyapeak 1972
- Marisolpeak 1996
- Vasilikipeak 1976
- Karimapeak 1979
- Angeliquepeak 1970
- Ranipeak 1971
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.