Kenyatta — #13701 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kenyatta

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,255 babies named Kenyatta between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenyatta currently holds the #13701 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 217 babies received it in a single year. Kenyatta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,216 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenyatta performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,416 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kenyatta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 542 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenyatta in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenyatta 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 4,255 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.