Kenyetta
Kenyetta was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 2,863 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,740 Americans named Kenyetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 36 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenyetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenyetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,253, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
126 babies in 1979, the peak
Kenyetta peaked in 1979, when 126 babies were given it (113 girls, #1,170 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,253 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,710 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,049 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,485 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,002 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,866 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,577 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,792 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,629 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,458 | 11.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 33 | #3,826 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,518 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,874 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,902 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,691 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,011 | 38.7 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,816 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,275 | 31.5 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,690 | 48.3 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,763 | 43.2 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,491 | 54.8 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,465 | 54.2 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,592 | 46.0 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,352 | 58.1 |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,481 | 49.5 |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,388 | 54.0 |
| 1984 | 100 | #1,268 | 59.4 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,441 | 48.5 |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,520 | 46.7 |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,214 | 64.7 |
| 1980 | 104 | #1,253 | 62.6 |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,170 | 70.4 |
| 1978 | 108 | #1,169 | 70.5 |
| 1977 | 111 | #1,143 | 72.4 |
| 1976 | 111 | #1,096 | 75.8 |
| 1975 | 105 | #1,114 | 72.0 |
| 1974 | 112 | #1,059 | 76.3 |
| 1973 | 87 | #1,222 | 59.7 |
| 1972 | 89 | #1,209 | 58.5 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,418 | 44.5 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,667 | 32.0 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,855 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,388 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,144 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,067 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,489 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,205 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenyetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,863 Americans recorded as Kenyetta, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenyetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenyetta, and how old are they?
2,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,863 Americans ever recorded as Kenyetta. The median Kenyetta alive today is 44 years old; half are between 36 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 2,167 people named Kenyetta (2,080 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,772 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 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 250 |
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 Kenyetta born?
The states with the most babies named Kenyetta are Michigan, New York and Georgia, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 280 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New York | 249 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 228 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 192 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 151 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Alabama | 98 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| North Carolina | 95 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 50 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Kenyetta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenyetta is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1963 it was given 3.0 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 Kenyetta 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 12,075 babies since 1880, Kenyetta is the second most given (24% 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 Kenyetta
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 Kenyetta and names like it
- Compare Kenyetta and KenyattaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKenyetta peaked in 1979.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenyetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Kenyetta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kenyetta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.