Girls' name · since 1976
Kenishia
Kenishia has 84 recorded births since 1976 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1991 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 84
- total births
- 1976–1997
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 60%
- born in that decade
84 girls have been named Kenishia since 1976, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kenishia has 84 recorded births among girls since 1976, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1976 to 1997.
- 84 total births
- 1976–1997 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 60% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kenishia's 84 recorded births place it above 60% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kenishia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kenishia splits its recorded history at 1990: 60% of all births land in the more recent half, 40% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1976 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1991 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kenishia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1976–1997
- Peak year (1991)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Kenishia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kenishia's strongest decade.
50 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Kenishia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 17
1970s
17 births
- 1980s 17
1980s
17 births
- 1990s
1990s
50 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 50 births (60% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1976–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kenishia: Baby Name Since 1976 - 84 Births, Peak 1991." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kenishia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kenishia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.