Ikenna

#6,244 in 2025Boys' name

Power of the father

Ikenna has been given to 728 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #6,244 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Ikenna, 2025

1 in 237,000

Ikenna over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ikenna: meaning, origin, and history

Power of the father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ikenna means

Ikenna means “power of the father”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 728 boys were recorded with the name Ikenna between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,937 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,091 in 2020 to #6,244 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,463 in 2015 to #6,244 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ikenna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 122,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #6,244; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ikenna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ikenna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ikennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ikenna was born before 2004 — so the typical Ikenna is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 60.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 728; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Ikenna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,630; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −153; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +219; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.08×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 53.8%; Peak was 2003 (26)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,937; 1991

Spellings of Ikenna

Ikenna is not the most common spelling — Kenny is, with 90.3% against Ikenna's 1.3%.

Kenny90.3%51,931
Kenya3.7%2,141
Kennan2.1%1,223
Kenn1.3%756
Ikenna1.3%728
Kenta1.2%711

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ikenna is used

Across 1910–2025, Ikenna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 698,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Georgia1 in —
3New York1 in —
4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ikenna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ikenna around the world

Where Ikenna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#2,133
in 2025
France
2020–2021
#6,311
in 2021
Canada
2019–2023
#3,103
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ikenna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #6,244
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 153
Best rank ever: #2,937; 1991
Peak year: 2003; 26 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 728
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Ikenna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Ikeem Obinna Uchenna Jidenna Ikechukwu Ugonna Tobenna Kenna Joanna Deanna Brianna Senna Ikechi Jenna Donna Ikey Ike Lotanna Shanna Mckenna Iker Gianna Dianna Danna

Sibling names for Ikenna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Abigale Jazmyne Lisbeth Taniya Savana Sheridan Rhianna Sydnee

For a brother

Keven Zakary Donavon Shamar Kadin Samual Demarco Jaren

Explore around Ikenna

Top names of 2003, Ikenna's peak year The 2000s in full Other names that peaked in 1991 Boys' names starting with I Igbo Boy Names Igbo Names