Girls' name · since 1954
Kennetta
Kennetta has 202 recorded births since 1954 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1984 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 202
- total births
- 1954–1995
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 44%
- born in that decade
Kennetta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 202 have been recorded since 1954.
Kennetta has 202 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 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1954 to 1995.
- 202 total births
- 1954–1995 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 44% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kennetta's 202 recorded births place it above 73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kennetta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kennetta splits its recorded history at 1979: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1987 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1984 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kennetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1995
- Peak year (1984)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 42 years of records
Kennetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kennetta's strongest decade.
88 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Kennetta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s 14
1960s
14 births
- 1970s
1970s
88 births
- 1980s
1980s
74 births
- 1990s 20
1990s
20 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 88 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Kennetta's decade-level peak was the 1970s (88 total births); usage has since declined to 20 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, 1954–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kennetta: Baby Name Since 1954 - 202 Births, Peak 1984." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kennetta. 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 Kennetta 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.