Kenya — #1662 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kenya

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,340 babies named Kenya between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenya currently holds the #1662 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 894 babies received it in a single year. Kenya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,141 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenya performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 6,502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kenya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,970 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenya in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenya 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 25,340 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.