Kenyatta
Kenyatta was last recorded in 2024, when 15 babies were given it; 7,471 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,090 Americans named Kenyatta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenyatta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenyatta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,382, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
443 babies in 1975, the peak
Kenyatta peaked in 1975, when 443 babies were given it (217 girls, #690 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,382 | 9 | #8,677 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,597 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #7,039 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,503 | 14 | #6,187 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,298 | 8 | #9,161 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 14 | #6,263 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,920 | 16 | #5,665 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 17 | #5,415 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,153 | 13 | #6,541 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,509 | 10 | #7,782 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,626 | 17 | #5,376 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,604 | 17 | #5,290 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,889 | 25 | #4,074 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,993 | 29 | #3,655 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,133 | 21 | #4,609 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,429 | 21 | #4,669 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,226 | 42 | #2,857 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,879 | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,742 | 26 | #3,848 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,616 | 23 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,530 | 46 | #2,435 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,766 | 35 | #2,817 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,689 | 51 | #2,106 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,858 | 50 | #2,096 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,553 | 69 | #1,671 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,546 | 63 | #1,676 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,854 | 59 | #1,729 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,120 | 66 | #1,559 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,675 | 70 | #1,456 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,533 | 57 | #1,609 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,496 | 67 | #1,441 |
| 1993 | 120 | #1,370 | 62 | #1,497 |
| 1992 | 130 | #1,299 | 48 | #1,755 |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,159 | 48 | #1,706 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,155 | 41 | #1,881 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,473 | 37 | #1,968 |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,296 | 34 | #1,927 |
| 1987 | 117 | #1,224 | 31 | #1,993 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,319 | 26 | #2,190 |
| 1985 | 118 | #1,195 | 33 | #1,816 |
| 1984 | 135 | #1,048 | 28 | #1,955 |
| 1983 | 132 | #1,056 | 37 | #1,615 |
| 1982 | 130 | #1,089 | 44 | #1,453 |
| 1981 | 145 | #1,005 | 61 | #1,182 |
| 1980 | 161 | #931 | 104 | #873 |
| 1979 | 198 | #799 | 118 | #803 |
| 1978 | 187 | #802 | 158 | #668 |
| 1977 | 153 | #918 | 160 | #670 |
| 1976 | 161 | #849 | 182 | #605 |
| 1975 | 217 | #690 | 226 | #533 |
| 1974 | 118 | #1,018 | 148 | #666 |
| 1973 | 123 | #968 | 142 | #671 |
| 1972 | 133 | #925 | 111 | #754 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,605 | 105 | #788 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,493 | 80 | #901 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,278 | 39 | #1,269 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,514 | 21 | #1,761 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,444 | 23 | #1,624 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,660 | 17 | #1,929 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,140 | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,216 | 14 | #2,260 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,132 | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,197 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,849 |
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 Kenyatta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,471 Americans recorded as Kenyatta, 57% are girls and 43% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Kenyatta every year since 2001.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenyatta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenyatta, and how old are they?
7,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 7,471 Americans ever recorded as Kenyatta. The median Kenyatta alive today is 43 years old; half are between 32 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 5,551 people named Kenyatta (3,344 women and girls, 2,207 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 210 |
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).
Where are babies named Kenyatta born?
The states with the most babies named Kenyatta are Illinois, Georgia and Michigan, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 772 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 502 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 464 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 353 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 326 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Florida | 284 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 283 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 222 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 219 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 214 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kenyatta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenyatta is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1961 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenyatta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,912 babies since 1880, Kenyatta is the most given (63% 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 Kenyatta
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 Kenyatta and names like it
- Compare Kenyatta and KenyettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKenyatta peaked in 1975.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenyatta since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Kenyatta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kenyatta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.