Keneisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Keneisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 528 babies named Keneisha between 1976 and 2011, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keneisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 54 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keneisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Keneisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Keneisha in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keneisha 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 528 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.