Unisex name · since 1971
Kinshasa
Kinshasa has 116 recorded births since 1971 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1977 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 116
- total births
- 1971–1997
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 72%
- born in that decade
116 girls have been named Kinshasa since 1971, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kinshasa has 116 recorded births among girls since 1971, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1971 to 1997.
- 116 total births
- 1971–1997 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 72% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kinshasa's 116 recorded births place it above 65% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kinshasa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kinshasa's full recorded timeline at 1978, 49% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 51% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1971, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1977 peak of 19 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kinshasa popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–1997
- Peak year (1977)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Kinshasa popularity over time - boys
6 total births recorded since 1975 (Kinshasa as boys' name)
Kinshasa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kinshasa's strongest decade.
83 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 72% of all-time use.
Kinshasa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
83 births
- 1980s 7
1980s
7 births
- 1990s 26
1990s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 83 births (72% of all-time use).
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- Kinshasa's decade-level peak was the 1970s (83 total births); usage has since declined to 26 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1971–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kinshasa: Baby Name Since 1971 - 116 Births, Peak 1977." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kinshasa. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kinshasa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.