Kennetha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kennetha

The Social Security Administration has registered 556 babies named Kennetha between 1955 and 1998, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kennetha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kennetha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kennetha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Kennetha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kennetha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 556 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.