Kenika
Kenika was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,249, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1981, the peak
Kenika peaked in 1981, when 11 girls were given it, #6,085 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,249 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,774 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,792 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,501 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,578 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,783 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,085 | 6.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,360 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenika, and how old are they?
An estimated 49 Americans named Kenika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 106 people named Kenika (93 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenika
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.