Ikenna — #4760 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ikenna

The Social Security Administration has registered 713 babies named Ikenna between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ikenna currently holds the #4760 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 26 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ikenna performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 202 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ikenna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ikenna in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ikenna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 713 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.