Kenia — #1014 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kenia

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,035 babies named Kenia between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenia currently holds the #1014 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 451 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,267 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kenia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,899 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenia in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenia 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 10,035 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.