Kenta
Kenta was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,212 among boys’ names; 716 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kenta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kenta is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese けんた (Kenta).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kenta?
#10,212 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenta fell from #7,313 in 2015 to #10,212 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.1 per million.
48 babies in 1977, the peak
Kenta peaked in 1977, when 48 boys were given it, #1,302 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,212 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,512 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,266 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,335 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,903 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,515 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,277 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,313 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,477 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,469 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,499 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,425 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,884 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,017 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,642 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,727 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,960 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,049 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,775 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,932 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,813 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,387 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,481 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,322 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,550 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,305 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,927 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,883 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,988 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,924 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,636 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,502 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,548 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,726 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,805 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,417 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,662 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,151 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,988 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,757 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,030 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,965 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,030 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,514 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,431 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 48 | #1,302 | 29.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,296 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenta has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kenta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenta, and how old are they?
An estimated 690 Americans named Kenta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 721 people named Kenta (50 women and girls, 671 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 671 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,469 babies since 1880, Kenta is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 63 babies (11%), again the third most given.
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 Kenta
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 Kenta and names like it
- Compare Kenta and KeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKenta peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenta since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kenta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kenta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.