Kenta

Where Kenta comes from

Borrowed from Japanese けんた (Kenta).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kenta
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,054 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #1,289
    48 babies named Kenta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,375.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.