Kinshasa
Kinshasa was last recorded in 1997, when 7 babies were given it; 122 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinshasa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinshasa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,467, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1975, the peak
Kinshasa peaked in 1975, when 24 babies were given it (18 girls, #3,693 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #11,467 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,887 | 6.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,968 | 4.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,547 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,246 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,744 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,833 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,926 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,693 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,530 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | #7,835 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinshasa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 122 Americans recorded as Kinshasa, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kinshasa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinshasa, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Kinshasa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 45 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 151 people named Kinshasa (124 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kinshasa
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.