Kennesha
Kennesha was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 366 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kennesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kennesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,635, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1990, the peak
Kennesha peaked in 1990, when 26 girls were given it, #3,950 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,635 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,127 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,140 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,922 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,748 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,261 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,907 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,212 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,500 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,404 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | #6,108 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,155 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,456 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,450 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,090 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,950 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,675 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,060 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,532 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,309 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,733 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,082 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,778 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,161 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,561 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,371 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,963 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,151 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,973 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,622 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kennesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kennesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kennesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kennesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 356 Americans named Kennesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 30 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Kennesha (313 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 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 Kennesha
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.