Kenijah
Kenijah was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 113 Americans have been recorded with it between 1998 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenijah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,599, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2007, the peak
Kenijah peaked in 2007, when 11 girls were given it, #10,483 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,599 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,071 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,834 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,327 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,215 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,483 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,355 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,537 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,123 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,056 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #12,920 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,525 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,306 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,263 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenijah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenijah, and how old are they?
An estimated 112 Americans named Kenijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 17 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenijah
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.