Kinte — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kinte

The Social Security Administration has registered 213 babies named Kinte between 1976 and 2003, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kinte currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 104 babies received it in a single year. Kinte is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 12 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kinte performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kinte shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Kinte in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kinte 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 213 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.