Meaning not yet researched.
Kenia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 179 in 2025. Its best rank was #643 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #643 in 2012; #1,253 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,253 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #643.
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Kenia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 179 girls in 2025. Peak: #643 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 451 (2016).
In 2025, 179 US girls were named Kenia, making it the 1,253rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 238 places from #1,015 in 2024. That is 72 fewer than the 251 girls named Kenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #643, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 451, in 2016. For comparison, it was #780 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenia in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 10,228 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,267 babies named Kenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,002 US girls were named Kenia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 451. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,979 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #769 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenny (52,479 babies since 1880), Kenya (27,553 babies since 1880) and Keoni (3,576 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyonia, Kenniah and Kyniah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keyonia (366), Kenniah (46), Kyniah (35), Keyniah (11), Kyonia (10), Kiniah (5), Kini (5), Keanii (5), Keonie (5), Keyania (5), Kionia (5), Kiania (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kenia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #769 | #398 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #779 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #850 | #415 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #850 | #1,160 |
| Arizona | 7 | #867 | #590 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,150 | #511 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,217 | #1,572 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,273 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,313 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,361 | #1,498 |
| New York | 7 | #1,745 | #1,696 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,029 | #1,232 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2024 | 251 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2023 | 276 | #950 | — | — |
| 2022 | 294 | #920 | — | — |
| 2021 | 230 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 2020 | 279 | #926 | — | — |
| 2019 | 307 | #875 | — | — |
| 2018 | 330 | #823 | — | — |
| 2017 | 405 | #710 | — | — |
| 2016 | 451 | #650 | — | — |
| 2015 | 362 | #780 | — | — |
| 2014 | 319 | #865 | — | — |
| 2013 | 297 | #869 | — | — |
| 2012 | 443 | #643 | — | — |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2007 | 287 | #945 | — | — |
| 2006 | 303 | #878 | — | — |
| 2005 | 296 | #854 | — | — |
| 2004 | 263 | #922 | — | — |
| 2003 | 311 | #796 | — | — |
| 2002 | 281 | #831 | — | — |
| 2001 | 282 | #824 | — | — |
| 2000 | 213 | #996 | — | — |
| 1999 | 214 | #969 | 5 | #10,821 |
| 1998 | 207 | #978 | — | — |
| 1997 | 213 | #934 | — | — |
| 1996 | 213 | #922 | — | — |
| 1995 | 243 | #813 | — | — |
| 1994 | 272 | #761 | — | — |
| 1993 | 171 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1992 | 200 | #962 | 7 | #7,070 |
| 1991 | 128 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,037 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,624 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,278 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,195 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,040 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).