first name
KENISHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,580 people named Kenisha, 85.5% reported their origin as Black, 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kenisha peaked in 1978, when 313 babies got the name.
At least 4,024 babies have been given the name since 1973. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kenisha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #2,029. The largest share of babies named Kenisha, 53.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kenisha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kenisha has been most common in Mississippi (3.8×), Louisiana (3×), and Florida (2.9×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.39×).
2,517 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kenisha, most common first.
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