Kenyata — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kenyata

The Social Security Administration has registered 820 babies named Kenyata between 1971 and 2005, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenyata currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Kenyata is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 306 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenyata performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 359 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kenyata shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenyata in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenyata 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 820 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.