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Kenisha

#10,502 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kenisha has been given to 4,024 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #10,502 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 313 recorded.

Babies named Kenisha, 2025

1 in 368,000

Kenisha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenisha means

Kenisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Kenisha

Wikidata records Kenisha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q134613675, 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, 4,019 girls were recorded with the name Kenisha between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 313 in 1978; its best national rank was #557 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,236 in 2020 to #10,502 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,230 in 2015 to #10,502 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kenisha between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,600 in 1989.

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 Kenisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,502
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenisha 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenisha was born before 1989 — so the typical Kenisha is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,019
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (1,382).

Is Kenisha 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
+3,874
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,266
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,272
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1978 (313)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#557
1978

Spellings of Kenisha

Kenisha is not the most common spelling — Keisha is, with 14.0% against Kenisha's 2.5%.

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 Kenisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Kenisha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 53,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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. Kenisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kenisha around the world

Where Kenisha 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
    1998–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #6,308
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1995–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Kenisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,502
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,266
Best rank ever
#557
1978
Peak year
1978
313 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,019
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,600
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kenisha

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

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Names with a curve like Kenisha

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

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Sibling names for Kenisha

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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