Kenia
#1,250 for girls in 2025, 179 births · Last seen for boys in 1999 at #9,912
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 443 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,216since 1961
Kenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Kenia has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,250 | 179 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,014 | 251 | — | |
| 2023 | #949 | 276 | — | |
| 2022 | #919 | 294 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,086 | 230 | — | |
| 2020 | #924 | 279 | — | |
| 2019 | #874 | 307 | — | |
| 2018 | #823 | 330 | — | |
| 2017 | #709 | 405 | — | |
| 2016 | #650 | 451 | — | |
| 2015 | #780 | 362 | — | |
| 2014 | #862 | 319 | — | |
| 2013 | #866 | 297 | — | |
| 2012 | #643 | 443 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,427 | 159 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,241 | 194 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,280 | 190 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 | — | |
| 2007 | #944 | 287 | — | |
| 2006 | #875 | 303 | — | |
| 2005 | #853 | 296 | — | |
| 2004 | #920 | 263 | — | |
| 2003 | #796 | 311 | — | |
| 2002 | #830 | 281 | — | |
| 2001 | #823 | 282 | — | |
| 2000 | #994 | 213 | — | |
| 1999 | #966 | 214 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #975 | 207 | — | |
| 1997 | #930 | 213 | — | |
| 1996 | #920 | 213 | — | |
| 1995 | #813 | 243 | — | |
| 1994 | #761 | 272 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,063 | 171 | — | |
| 1992 | #961 | 200 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #1,297 | 128 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,356 | 117 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,839 | 67 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,935 | 55 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,805 | 60 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenia! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kenia is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#507 · 1 in 2,135
- Texas#625 · 1 in 3,082
- Illinois#716 · 1 in 3,457
- Washington#752 · 1 in 3,635
- California#764 · 1 in 4,141
Best ever in a state: #203 in Nevada, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #507 | 15 | 1 in 2,135 |
| Texas | #625 | 53 | 1 in 3,082 |
| Illinois | #716 | 13 | 1 in 3,457 |
| Washington | #752 | 8 | 1 in 3,635 |
| California | #764 | 40 | 1 in 4,141 |
| Massachusetts | #767 | 6 | 1 in 4,025 |
| Maryland | #769 | 6 | 1 in 3,471 |
| Georgia | #816 | 12 | 1 in 3,793 |
| Arizona | #848 | 7 | 1 in 4,006 |
| North Carolina | #971 | 9 | 1 in 5,136 |
| Virginia | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 5,674 |
| New Jersey | #1,058 | 6 | 1 in 6,046 |
| Florida | #1,166 | 12 | 1 in 7,192 |
| Ohio | #1,430 | 5 | 1 in 9,359 |
| New York | #1,657 | 7 | 1 in 11,230 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kenia
- 236 spots since 2024 (#1,014 → #1,250)
- 326 spots since 2020 (#924 → #1,250)
- 470 spots since 2015 (#780 → #1,250)
- Biggest jump: 784 spots in 2012 (#1,427 → #643)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2013 (#643 → #866)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2012 at #643 (443 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1994–2007
- Highest: 1 in 3,929 girls born in 2016 were named Kenia (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,979 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #643 in 2012, was only 1 in 3,975 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Kenia (3,267) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 51 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,530 |
| 1970s | 209 | #2,572 (1978) | #3,525 |
| 1980s | 520 | #1,479 (1989) | #2,182 |
| 1990s | 1,978 | #761 (1994) | #1,004 |
| 2000s | 2,682 | #796 (2003) | #934 |
| 2010s | 3,267 | #643 (2012) | #888 |
| 2020s | 1,509 | #919 (2022) | #1,024 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenia in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 6,455 of them was named Kenia, which outranked 94.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).