Keneshia
Keneshia was last recorded in 2000, when 7 babies were given it; 331 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keneshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keneshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,468, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1990, the peak
Keneshia peaked in 1990, when 40 girls were given it, #2,867 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #12,468 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,008 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,261 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,909 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,176 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,407 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,153 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,430 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,767 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,871 | 14.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 40 | #2,867 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,578 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,164 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,191 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,626 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,538 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,599 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,001 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,590 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,190 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,700 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,622 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,280 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,972 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keneshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keneshia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keneshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keneshia, and how old are they?
An estimated 322 Americans named Keneshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 34 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 305 people named Keneshia (303 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,790 babies since 1880, Keneshia is the sixth most given (4.9% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keneshia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Keneshia and names like it
- Compare Keneshia and KenishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeneshia peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keneshia since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Keneshia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keneshia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.