Kenisha
Kenisha was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,502 among girls’ names; 4,024 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,910 Americans named Kenisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 31 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenisha?
#10,502 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenisha fell from #9,230 in 2015 to #10,502 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.6 per million.
313 babies in 1978, the peak
Kenisha peaked in 1978, when 313 girls were given it, #557 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,502 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,376 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,276 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,801 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,381 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,236 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,799 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,897 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,947 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,078 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,230 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,281 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,808 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,024 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,612 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,288 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,428 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,213 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,520 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,520 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,066 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,863 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,782 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,868 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,897 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,235 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,101 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,152 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,555 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,440 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 139 | #1,239 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 179 | #1,030 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 191 | #994 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 207 | #927 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 221 | #877 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 149 | #1,113 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 134 | #1,144 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 106 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 118 | #1,196 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 123 | #1,160 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 103 | #1,248 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 106 | #1,210 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,479 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,345 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,120 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 178 | #870 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 313 | #557 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 229 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 134 | #953 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,638 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,319 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenisha has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kenisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenisha, and how old are they?
3,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,024 Americans ever recorded as Kenisha. The median Kenisha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 31 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 3,580 people named Kenisha (3,574 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 987 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 674 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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 Kenisha born?
The states with the most babies named Kenisha are California, Illinois and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 284 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 271 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 254 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 215 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 197 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 163 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 140 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 137 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Mississippi | 121 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Kenisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenisha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1973 it was given 2.7 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 Kenisha 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 7,306 babies since 1880, Kenisha is the most given (55% of them).
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 Kenisha
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 Kenisha and names like it
- Compare Kenisha and KeneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKenisha peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kenisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kenisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.