Kunta
Kunta was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 311 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kunta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kunta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,785, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
223 babies in 1977, the peak
Kunta peaked in 1977, when 223 babies were given it (215 boys, #572 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #9,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 215 | #572 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kunta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 311 Americans recorded as Kunta, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kunta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kunta, and how old are they?
An estimated 286 Americans named Kunta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 48 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 261 people named Kunta (21 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Kunta
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.
More about Kunta and names like it
- Compare Kunta and TellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKunta peaked in 1977.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kunta since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kunta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kunta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.