Kwanzaa — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kwanzaa

The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Kwanzaa between 1984 and 1995, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kwanzaa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Kwanzaa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kwanzaa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 29 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kwanzaa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kwanzaa 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 34 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.