Kenyata
Kenyata was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Kenyata and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenyata by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenyata?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,865, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1976, the peak
Kenyata peaked in 1976, when 64 babies were given it (38 girls, #2,226 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #13,178 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,865 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,620 | 6 | #10,707 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,814 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,927 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,754 | 6 | #9,950 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 15 | #4,923 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,152 | 5 | #10,819 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,938 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,048 | 6 | #8,740 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | #7,849 | 8 | #6,823 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,316 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,920 | 9 | #6,111 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,533 | 6 | #8,175 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,722 | 8 | #6,410 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,854 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,468 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,781 | 10 | #5,004 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,761 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,748 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,650 | 6 | #6,338 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,297 | 7 | #5,465 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,701 | 8 | #4,780 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,193 | 11 | #3,758 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,666 | 11 | #3,818 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,588 | 11 | #3,739 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,771 | 20 | #2,488 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,890 | 25 | #2,076 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,437 | 25 | #1,995 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,399 | 25 | #1,975 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,226 | 26 | #1,904 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,842 | 13 | #3,001 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,775 | 15 | #2,614 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,469 | 6 | #4,820 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,195 | 7 | #4,215 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,908 | 6 | #4,677 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kenyata a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,126 Americans recorded as Kenyata, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenyata: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenyata, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,126 Americans ever recorded as Kenyata. The median Kenyata alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 827 people named Kenyata (595 women and girls, 232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,090 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 375 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 582 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 114 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Kenyata?
Kenyata is a less common spelling of Kenyatta: SSA has recorded 1,126 Kenyata and 7,471 Kenyatta since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 12,121 babies since 1880, Kenyata is the third most given (9.3% 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 Kenyata
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Daniell | 2,883 |
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 Kenyata and names like it
- Compare Kenyata and KenyattaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKenyata peaked in 1976.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenyata since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Kenyata.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kenyata alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.