Kenisha

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1978 · 313 births
Debut · girls
19 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,019
since 1973

Kenisha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kenisha has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #557, 1978girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#13,4776
2023#8,05513
2022#10,3839
2021#13,4646
2020#8,95311
2019#15,5395
2018#8,61712
2017#6,80817
2016#5,98521
2015#8,93112
2014#8,05314
2013#8,58013
2012#7,80415
2011#7,43616
2010#6,18221
2009#6,31721
2008#5,14228
2007#4,47533
2006#4,46332
2005#4,02935
2004#3,81937
2003#2,77156
2002#2,85452
2001#2,88150
2000#3,21642
1999#2,09573
1998#2,14667
1997#1,552104
1996#1,70289
1995#1,439112
1994#1,239139
1993#1,029179
1992#996191
1991#928207
1990#878221
1989#1,111149#7,9055
1988#1,140134
1987#1,302106
1986#1,194118
1985#1,158123
1984#1,245103
1983#1,207106
1982#1,47481
1981#1,34093
1980#1,117122
1979#869178
1978#557313
1977#684229
1976#949134
1975#2,61229
1974#4,22714
1973#3,34219
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Kenisha! It came in at #3,342, and was given to 19 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2019, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 3,370 spots since 2024 (#13,477#10,107)
  • 1,154 spots since 2020 (#8,953#10,107)
  • 1,176 spots since 2015 (#8,931#10,107)
  • Biggest jump: 1,663 spots in 1976 (#2,612#949)
  • Biggest drop: 312 spots in 1979 (#557#869)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1978 at #557 (313 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1976–1979
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,894
  • Highest: 1 in 4,894 girls born in 1978 were named Kenisha (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 34.4% of all girls named Kenisha (1,382) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s916#557 (1978)#1,891
1980s1,135#1,111 (1989)#1,229
1990s1,382#878 (1990)#1,400
2000s386#2,771 (2003)#3,997
2010s146#5,985 (2016)#8,394
2020s54#8,055 (2023)#10,740

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.

Kenisha in 1991

girls
#928
207 births · 1 in 9,058 girls

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #928Kenisha207
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 9,058 of them was named Kenisha, which outranked 94.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kenisha
  1. #923Gillian208
  2. #923Kalie208
  3. #923Tiesha208
  4. #928Kenisha207
  5. #928Katheryn207
  6. #928Kim207
  7. #928Maryann207
  8. #933Sonja206
  9. #934Becky205
  10. #934Brittnie205

Tied with 4 names at #928; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 1,600Rebeccah#2,600#1,000
  2. 1,221Ieshia#1,938#717
  3. 1,135Miriah#2,081#946
  4. 861Alexus#1,813#952
  5. 676Chynna#1,512#836
Fallers
  1. 568Infant#432#1,000
  2. 510Lakeshia#897#1,407
  3. 466Latifah#701#1,167
  4. 432Martika#757#1,189
  5. 416Cecily#575#991

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991