Girls' name · since 1970
Kennethia
Since 1970, U.S. Social Security records show 230 babies named Kennethia, peaking in 1981. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 230
- total births
- 1970–2001
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 38%
- born in that decade
Kennethia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 230 have been recorded since 1970.
Kennethia has 230 recorded births among girls since 1970, 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 1970 to 2001.
- 230 total births
- 1970–2001 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 38% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kennethia's 230 recorded births place it above 75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kennethia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kennethia's full recorded timeline at 1988, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1979, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1981 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kennethia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–2001
- Peak year (1981)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Kennethia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kennethia's strongest decade.
87 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.
Kennethia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
44 births
- 1980s
1980s
87 births
- 1990s
1990s
84 births
- 2000s 15
2000s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 87 births (38% of all-time use).
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- Kennethia's decade-level peak was the 1980s (87 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 2000s -- 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, 1970–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kennethia: Baby Name Since 1970 - 230 Births, Peak 1981." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kennethia. 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 Kennethia 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.