Kennisha
Kennisha was last recorded in 2008, when 8 babies were given it; 600 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kennisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kennisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,214, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1990, the peak
Kennisha peaked in 1990, when 36 girls were given it, #3,110 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | #13,214 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,087 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,029 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,058 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,520 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,751 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,643 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,010 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,932 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,585 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 17 | #5,654 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,606 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,059 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,460 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,301 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,666 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,110 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,206 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,632 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,938 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,951 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,284 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,801 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,745 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,611 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,716 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,669 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,197 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,049 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,318 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,380 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kennisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kennisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kennisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kennisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Kennisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 519 people named Kennisha (519 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
How common is the spelling Kennisha?
Kennisha is a less common spelling of Kenisha: SSA has recorded 600 Kennisha and 4,024 Kenisha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,059 babies since 1880, Kennisha is the third most given (8.5% of them).
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kennisha
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.
More about Kennisha and names like it
- Compare Kennisha and KenishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKennisha peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kennisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kennisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kennisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.