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Kenia

#1,253 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kenia has been given to 10,228 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #1,253 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 451 recorded.

Babies named Kenia, 2025

1 in 18,500

Kenia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenia means

Kenia is a given name.

The naming story behind Kenia

Wikidata records Kenia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q52358987, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,216 girls were recorded with the name Kenia between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 451 in 2016; its best national rank was #643 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #926 in 2020 to #1,253 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #780 in 2015 to #1,253 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Kenia between 1992 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1992; its best national rank was #7,063 in 1992.

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.

How common is Kenia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,500
179 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,980
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,253
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,839 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenia was born before 2008 — so the typical Kenia is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,216
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (3,267).

Is Kenia 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
−238
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−327
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−473
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.7%
Peak was 2016 (451)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#643
2012

Spellings of Kenia

Kenia is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 11.6% against Kenia's 0.80%.

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 Kenia is used

Across 2016–2025, Kenia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 4,467 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

243 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,326
  2. 2California1 in 2,500
  3. 3Arizona1 in 2,857
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 3,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 3,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 4,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 4,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 4,167

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Kenia is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 69% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kenia around the world

Where Kenia 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
    2015–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1993–2022
    #5,863
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kenia

People whose public names include Kenia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 327
Best rank ever
#643
2012
Peak year
2016
451 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,216
Count in 2025
179

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,063
1992
Peak year
1992
7 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kenia

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

KenniaKennaKendalKenyaKenleyKenziDaniaKendaKendylKenzieKensleyKennediToniaKenleeTaniaKenzyRaniaKenishaShaniaKenzaKenaJaniaVaniaXenia

Names with a curve like Kenia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kenia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PalomaAmarisSkyJaydeRyannKallieHanaAnneliseMiyaSalmaAdileneIvana

Sibling names for Kenia

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

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