first name
KENYA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 22,943 people named Kenya, 65% reported their origin as Black, 25% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.4% as White. 93.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kenya peaked in 1973, when 1,039 babies got the name.
At least 27,553 babies have been given the name since 1952. 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.
Kenya by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #589. The largest share of babies named Kenya, 31.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Kenya is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kenya has been most common in Georgia (2.4×), Mississippi (2.3×), and South Carolina (2×), and least common in Minnesota (0.1×).
23,961 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 Kenya, most common first.
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