Kenyatta
Kenyatta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 690th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1975217 births
- Best rank
- #690in 1975
- Since 1962
- 7,471people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,255 girls have been named Kenyatta in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 217 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 217 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 33%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kenyatta is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are boys (3,216), most of them born around 1975.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1975, its biggest year
Kenyatta was the 690th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Kenyatta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sachapeak 1977
- Brandeepeak 1975
- Danyellpeak 1974
- Kieshapeak 1979
- Beronicapeak 1979
- Kenyettapeak 1979
- Tanishapeak 1982
- Errinpeak 1977
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.