Meaning not yet researched.
Kenya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #275 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #275 in 1973; #2,499 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,499 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #275.
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Kenya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #275 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 894 (1973).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Kenya, making it the 2,499th most common girls’ name of the year, down 839 places from #1,660 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 124 girls named Kenya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #275, reached in 1973. That year also had the most girls given the name: 894. For comparison, it was #894 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenya in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 27,553 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 7,562 babies named Kenya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,919 US girls were named Kenya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 326. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenya ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,146 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) and Kenia (10,228 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keniyah, Kenyah and Kinya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keniyah (777), Kenyah (415), Kinya (343), Keonia (301), Keniah (231), Kenyia (103), Kynia (52), Kenyae (24), Keenyah (17), Kiniya (11), Keynia (6), Kenyiah (6), and more.
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 Kenya 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,146 | #745 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,289 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,783 | #789 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,783 | #732 |
| California | 6 | #2,939 | #717 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,660 | 8 | #9,450 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2021 | 162 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2020 | 190 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2019 | 228 | #1,092 | 7 | #10,319 |
| 2018 | 242 | #1,060 | 9 | #8,519 |
| 2017 | 275 | #964 | 12 | #6,916 |
| 2016 | 326 | #863 | 7 | #10,243 |
| 2015 | 309 | #894 | 7 | #10,136 |
| 2014 | 403 | #702 | 6 | #11,472 |
| 2013 | 469 | #602 | 10 | #7,843 |
| 2012 | 569 | #534 | 15 | #5,862 |
| 2011 | 337 | #803 | 10 | #7,811 |
| 2010 | 395 | #716 | 14 | #6,222 |
| 2009 | 478 | #631 | 11 | #7,484 |
| 2008 | 570 | #541 | 14 | #6,268 |
| 2007 | 587 | #534 | 13 | #6,460 |
| 2006 | 578 | #523 | 20 | #4,607 |
| 2005 | 466 | #610 | 23 | #3,995 |
| 2004 | 432 | #632 | 27 | #3,503 |
| 2003 | 475 | #582 | 15 | #5,165 |
| 2002 | 493 | #553 | 33 | #2,854 |
| 2001 | 466 | #559 | 31 | #2,966 |
| 2000 | 524 | #508 | 28 | #3,119 |
| 1999 | 456 | #552 | 31 | #2,768 |
| 1998 | 471 | #535 | 48 | #2,003 |
| 1997 | 452 | #527 | 23 | #3,220 |
| 1996 | 600 | #425 | 34 | #2,358 |
| 1995 | 673 | #394 | 24 | #2,981 |
| 1994 | 681 | #377 | 38 | #2,149 |
| 1993 | 682 | #376 | 40 | #2,031 |
| 1992 | 473 | #509 | 34 | #2,235 |
| 1991 | 366 | #616 | 35 | #2,119 |
| 1990 | 366 | #616 | 34 | #2,144 |
| 1989 | 349 | #609 | 31 | #2,222 |
| 1988 | 263 | #713 | 18 | #3,031 |
| 1987 | 249 | #726 | 15 | #3,278 |
| 1986 | 239 | #742 | 20 | #2,650 |
| 1985 | 290 | #641 | 19 | #2,650 |
| 1984 | 314 | #582 | 22 | #2,330 |
| 1983 | 389 | #500 | 33 | #1,734 |
| 1982 | 411 | #496 | 44 | #1,453 |
| 1981 | 416 | #492 | 57 | #1,215 |
| 1980 | 520 | #421 | 59 | #1,194 |
| 1979 | 630 | #358 | 70 | #1,065 |
| 1978 | 589 | #360 | 128 | #751 |
| 1977 | 712 | #330 | 120 | #780 |
| 1976 | 713 | #317 | 106 | #812 |
| 1975 | 864 | #281 | 130 | #727 |
| 1974 | 811 | #294 | 131 | #717 |
| 1973 | 894 | #275 | 145 | #664 |
| 1972 | 556 | #384 | 104 | #786 |
| 1971 | 398 | #484 | 59 | #1,064 |
| 1970 | 335 | #554 | 67 | #997 |
| 1969 | 219 | #672 | 46 | #1,159 |
| 1968 | 125 | #928 | 17 | #1,996 |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,217 | 12 | #2,415 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,338 | 8 | #3,124 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,606 | 6 | #3,729 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,510 | 13 | #2,361 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,650 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,984 | — | — |
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).