Girls' name · since 1954
Kenita
Since 1954, U.S. Social Security records show 354 babies named Kenita, peaking in 1979. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 354
- total births
- 1954–1996
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 41%
- born in that decade
Kenita is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 354 have been recorded since 1954.
Kenita has 354 recorded births among girls since 1954, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1954 to 1996.
- 354 total births
- 1954–1996 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 41% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kenita's 354 recorded births place it above 80% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kenita's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kenita splits its recorded history at 1978: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1955 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1979 peak of 25 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kenita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1996
- Peak year (1979)
- 25
- Annual births at peak, across 43 years of records
Kenita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kenita's strongest decade.
144 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Kenita births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 22
1950s
22 births
- 1960s 26
1960s
26 births
- 1970s
1970s
128 births
- 1980s
1980s
144 births
- 1990s 34
1990s
34 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 144 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Kenita's decade-level peak was the 1980s (144 total births); usage has since declined to 34 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 1954–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kenita: Baby Name Since 1954 - 354 Births, Peak 1979." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kenita. 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 Kenita 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.