Girls' name · since 1972
Kenetra
140 babies named Kenetra in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 140
- total births
- 1972–2000
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 55%
- born in that decade
Kenetra sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 140 recorded since 1972.
Kenetra has 140 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 2000.
- 140 total births
- 1972–2000 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 55% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kenetra's 140 recorded births place it above 67% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kenetra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kenetra's SSA record in two at 1985 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1972, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1990 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kenetra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–2000
- Peak year (1990)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Kenetra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kenetra's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Kenetra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 26
1970s
26 births
- 1980s
1980s
77 births
- 1990s
1990s
31 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 77 births (55% of all-time use).
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- Kenetra's decade-level peak was the 1980s (77 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kenetra: Baby Name Since 1972 - 140 Births, Peak 1990." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kenetra. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kenetra draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.