Kenyotta
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kenyotta has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% girls, 13% boys all-time.
Babies named Kenyotta, 1997
1 in 725,000
Kenyotta over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kenyotta over time
In 1997, Kenyotta went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kenyotta?
Kenyotta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 348,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,488 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kenyotta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenyotta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kenyottas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenyotta was born before 1987 — so the typical Kenyotta is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 130
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Kenyotta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (12)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kenyotta
Kenyotta is not the most common spelling — Kenyatta is, with 53.6% against Kenyotta's 1.6%.
Kenyotta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kenyotta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kenyotta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.