first name
KENYATTA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 5,551 people named Kenyatta, 93.7% reported their origin as Black, 3% as two or more races and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 60.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kenyatta peaked in 1975, when 443 babies got the name.
At least 7,471 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Kenyatta by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,068. The largest share of babies named Kenyatta, 44.1%, 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 Kenyatta is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kenyatta has been most common in Mississippi (5.6×), Georgia (3.9×), and Illinois (3.4×), and least common in Texas (0.25×).
4,538 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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Spelled almost the same
7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kenyatta, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kenyatta ranks #89,231 of 156,621, with 223 people. See Kenyatta as a last name
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