Kinisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kinisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 124 babies named Kinisha between 1974 and 1995, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kinisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 10 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kinisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 61 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kinisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kinisha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kinisha 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 124 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.