Kenia
Kenia was given to 179 girls in 2025, #1,253 among girls’ names; 10,228 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,100 Americans named Kenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenia?
#1,253 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenia fell from #780 in 2015 to #1,253 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.11 per 1,000.
451 babies in 2016, the peak
Kenia peaked in 2016, when 451 girls were given it, #650 among girls’ names. The 179 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 251 | #1,015 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 276 | #950 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 294 | #920 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 230 | #1,086 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 279 | #926 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 307 | #875 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 330 | #823 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 405 | #710 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 451 | #650 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 362 | #780 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 319 | #865 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 297 | #869 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 443 | #643 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,281 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,026 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 287 | #945 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 303 | #878 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 296 | #854 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 263 | #922 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 311 | #796 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 281 | #831 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 282 | #824 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 213 | #995 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 214 | #967 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 207 | #977 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 213 | #933 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 213 | #921 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 243 | #812 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 272 | #760 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,065 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 200 | #960 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 128 | #1,297 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,356 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,482 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,877 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,374 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,751 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,115 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,512 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,945 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,763 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,597 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,115 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,035 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,947 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,623 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,519 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,039 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenia has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenia, and how old are they?
10,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,228 Americans ever recorded as Kenia. The median Kenia alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 14,680 people named Kenia (14,604 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 284 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kenia born?
The states with the most babies named Kenia are California, Texas and Tennessee, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #769 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 35 | #850 | 1.9× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #850 | 0.4× |
| New York | 7 | #1,745 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 7 | #867 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,216 | 0.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,029 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,361 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,313 | 0.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,273 | 0.5× |
Where Kenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenia is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,564 babies since 1880, Kenia is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 179 of their 717 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
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 Kenia
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 Kenia and names like it
- Compare Kenia and KenyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenia peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenia since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kenia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.