Kinta
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kinta has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1977, with 32 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Kinta, 1982
1 in 702,000
Kinta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kinta over time
In 1982, Kinta went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Kinta?
Kinta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1982
- 1 in 702,000
- 5 of 3,507,638 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1982
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 486,263 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kinta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kinta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kintas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kinta was born before 1978 — so the typical Kinta is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 83.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 73
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 83.6% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Kinta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (32)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kinta
Kinta is not the most common spelling — Kent is, with 50.6% against Kinta's 0.05%.
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 Kinta is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kinta was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,645,836 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Kinta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kinta is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kinta was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 776,157 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
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. Kinta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kinta around the world
Where Kinta 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.
- South Australia1950–1950#318in 1950
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kinta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kinta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kinta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.