Kenia
#1,250 for girls in 2025, 179 births · Last seen for boys in 1999 at #9,912
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 443 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,216since 1961
Kenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Kenia has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,250 | 179 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,014 | 251 | — | |
| 2023 | #949 | 276 | — | |
| 2022 | #919 | 294 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,086 | 230 | — | |
| 2020 | #924 | 279 | — | |
| 2019 | #874 | 307 | — | |
| 2018 | #823 | 330 | — | |
| 2017 | #709 | 405 | — | |
| 2016 | #650 | 451 | — | |
| 2015 | #780 | 362 | — | |
| 2014 | #862 | 319 | — | |
| 2013 | #866 | 297 | — | |
| 2012 | #643 | 443 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,427 | 159 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,241 | 194 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,280 | 190 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 | — | |
| 2007 | #944 | 287 | — | |
| 2006 | #875 | 303 | — | |
| 2005 | #853 | 296 | — | |
| 2004 | #920 | 263 | — | |
| 2003 | #796 | 311 | — | |
| 2002 | #830 | 281 | — | |
| 2001 | #823 | 282 | — | |
| 2000 | #994 | 213 | — | |
| 1999 | #966 | 214 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #975 | 207 | — | |
| 1997 | #930 | 213 | — | |
| 1996 | #920 | 213 | — | |
| 1995 | #813 | 243 | — | |
| 1994 | #761 | 272 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,063 | 171 | — | |
| 1992 | #961 | 200 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #1,297 | 128 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,356 | 117 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,839 | 67 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,935 | 55 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,805 | 60 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenia! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kenia
- 236 spots since 2024 (#1,014 → #1,250)
- 326 spots since 2020 (#924 → #1,250)
- 470 spots since 2015 (#780 → #1,250)
- Biggest jump: 784 spots in 2012 (#1,427 → #643)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2013 (#643 → #866)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2012 at #643 (443 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1994–2007
- Highest: 1 in 3,929 girls born in 2016 were named Kenia (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,979 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #643 in 2012, was only 1 in 3,975 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Kenia (3,267) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 51 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,530 |
| 1970s | 209 | #2,572 (1978) | #3,525 |
| 1980s | 520 | #1,479 (1989) | #2,182 |
| 1990s | 1,978 | #761 (1994) | #1,004 |
| 2000s | 2,682 | #796 (2003) | #934 |
| 2010s | 3,267 | #643 (2012) | #888 |
| 2020s | 1,509 | #919 (2022) | #1,024 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenia in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 8,289 of them was named Kenia, which outranked 94.3% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 384,030 of them was named Kenia, which outranked 14.7% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,702 names at #9,912; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.