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Kenza

#2,797 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Kanza

Kenza has been given to 887 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,797 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Kenza, 2025

1 in 54,300

Kenza over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenza: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanza

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenza means

Kenza is a alternate transcription of Kanza.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanza.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 887 girls were recorded with the name Kenza between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,797 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,219 in 2020 to #2,797 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,887 in 2015 to #2,797 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.

How common is Kenza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,797
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenza 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 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenza was born before 2015 — so the typical Kenza is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
887
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Kenza 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,422
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,090
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (61)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,797
2025

Spellings of Kenza

Kenza is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 19.5% against Kenza's 0.12%.

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 Kenza is used

Across 2016–2025, Kenza was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 39,306 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Kenza around the world

Where Kenza 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
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1971–2025
    #242
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #488
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kenza by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,797
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,422
Best rank ever
#2,797
2025
Peak year
2025
61 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
887
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Kenza

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

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Sibling names for Kenza

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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