Kenyatta

Where Kenyatta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kenyatta.

  • Vowel-ended
Kenyatta through the years
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #5,860 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #688
    217 babies named Kenyatta, the most in any year.
  3. 1979
    Kenyatta Jones born
    player of American football
  4. 1979
    Kenyatta Walker born
    All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, offensive tackle
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,314.
  6. 2016
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Kenyatta Jones · player of American football, 1979–2018
  • Kenyatta Walker · All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, offensive tackle, born 1979
  • Kenyatta Johnson · American politician, born 1973

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.