Kenisha
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 313 births
- Debut · girls
- 19 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,019since 1973
Kenisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Kenisha has never cracked the top 500 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 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,552 | 104 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,702 | 89 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,439 | 112 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,239 | 139 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,029 | 179 | — | |
| 1992 | #996 | 191 | — | |
| 1991 | #928 | 207 | — | |
| 1990 | #878 | 221 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,111 | 149 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,140 | 134 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,302 | 106 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,194 | 118 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,158 | 123 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,245 | 103 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,207 | 106 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,474 | 81 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,340 | 93 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,117 | 122 | — | |
| 1979 | #869 | 178 | — | |
| 1978 | #557 | 313 | — | |
| 1977 | #684 | 229 | — | |
| 1976 | #949 | 134 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,612 | 29 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenisha! It came in at #3,342, and was given to 19 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2019, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kenisha is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#378 · 1 in 2,390
- Arkansas#389 · 1 in 2,479
- Mississippi#430 · 1 in 2,531
- North Carolina#525 · 1 in 4,570
- Illinois#541 · 1 in 4,113
Best ever in a state: #186 in Mississippi, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #378 | 9 | 1 in 2,390 |
| Arkansas | #389 | 5 | 1 in 2,479 |
| Mississippi | #430 | 6 | 1 in 2,531 |
| North Carolina | #525 | 7 | 1 in 4,570 |
| Illinois | #541 | 17 | 1 in 4,113 |
| Georgia | #568 | 7 | 1 in 4,412 |
| Michigan | #586 | 10 | 1 in 5,441 |
| Virginia | #591 | 5 | 1 in 5,378 |
| Louisiana | #714 | 5 | 1 in 5,203 |
| Florida | #777 | 6 | 1 in 6,828 |
| New York | #1,149 | 8 | 1 in 12,538 |
| California | #1,209 | 11 | 1 in 13,079 |
| Texas | #1,365 | 6 | 1 in 16,117 |
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See more about Kenisha
- 3,370 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #10,107)
- 1,154 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,107)
- 1,176 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 1,663 spots in 1976 (#2,612 → #949)
- Biggest drop: 312 spots in 1979 (#557 → #869)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #557 (313 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1976–1979
- Highest: 1 in 4,894 girls born in 1978 were named Kenisha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.4% of all girls named Kenisha (1,382) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 916 | #557 (1978) | #1,891 |
| 1980s | 1,135 | #1,111 (1989) | #1,229 |
| 1990s | 1,382 | #878 (1990) | #1,400 |
| 2000s | 386 | #2,771 (2003) | #3,997 |
| 2010s | 146 | #5,985 (2016) | #8,394 |
| 2020s | 54 | #8,055 (2023) | #10,740 |
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.
Kenisha in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 10,934 of them was named Kenisha, which outranked 91.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #946Cecelia135
- #946Lucille135
- #946Tamela135
- #949Kenisha134
- #949Alycia134
- #949Carmela134
- #949India134
- #956Caitlin133
- #956Eric133
- #956Inez133
Tied with 6 names at #949; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.