Girls' name · since 1969
Kinya
Kinya has 343 recorded births since 1969 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1975 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 343
- total births
- 1969–2012
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 48%
- born in that decade
Kinya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 343 have been recorded since 1969.
Kinya has 343 recorded births among girls since 1969, 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 1969 to 2012.
- 343 total births
- 1969–2012 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 48% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kinya's 343 recorded births place it above 80% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 2 jurisdictions, led by New York.
Kinya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kinya's full recorded timeline at 1987, 32% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 68% in the earlier half -- the name was more prevalent in its earlier era than it is today. Its quietest year on record was 1969, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1975 peak of 23 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kinya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1969–2012
- Peak year (1975)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 44 years of records
Kinya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kinya's strongest decade.
166 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Kinya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1970s
1970s
166 births
- 1980s
1980s
68 births
- 1990s 44
1990s
44 births
- 2000s 46
2000s
46 births
- 2010s 14
2010s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 166 births (48% of all-time use).
Kinya by state
Where Kinya concentrates geographically, total births since 1969
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- Kinya's decade-level peak was the 1970s (166 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- New York records the most Kinyas (7 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
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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, 1969–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kinya: Baby Name Since 1969 - 343 Births, Peak 1975." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kinya. 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 Kinya 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.