Kenya
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987
Given to girls 92.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 894 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 25,412since 1952
Kenya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,485 | 71 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,657 | 124 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,569 | 135 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,381 | 166 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,364 | 162 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,206 | 190 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,092 | 228 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #1,057 | 242 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #964 | 275 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #863 | 326 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #892 | 309 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #700 | 403 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #602 | 469 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #534 | 569 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #802 | 337 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #715 | 395 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #629 | 478 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #540 | 570 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #534 | 587 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #523 | 578 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #610 | 466 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #631 | 432 | #3,456 | 27 |
| 2003 | #581 | 475 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #553 | 493 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #559 | 466 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #508 | 524 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #552 | 456 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #534 | 471 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #526 | 452 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #425 | 600 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #394 | 673 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #377 | 681 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #375 | 682 | #2,007 | 40 |
| 1992 | #508 | 473 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #616 | 366 | #2,095 | 35 |
| 1990 | #614 | 366 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #608 | 349 | #2,206 | 31 |
| 1988 | #713 | 263 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #725 | 249 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #741 | 239 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #640 | 290 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #582 | 314 | #2,292 | 22 |
| 1983 | #499 | 389 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #496 | 411 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #491 | 416 | #1,207 | 57 |
| 1980 | #420 | 520 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #358 | 630 | #1,056 | 70 |
| 1978 | #359 | 589 | #749 | 128 |
| 1977 | #330 | 712 | #778 | 120 |
| 1976 | #317 | 713 | #809 | 106 |
| 1975 | #281 | 864 | #725 | 130 |
| 1974 | #294 | 811 | #716 | 131 |
| 1973 | #275 | 894 | #661 | 145 |
| 1972 | #383 | 556 | #783 | 104 |
| 1971 | #484 | 398 | #1,057 | 59 |
| 1970 | #554 | 335 | #989 | 67 |
| 1969 | #670 | 219 | #1,152 | 46 |
| 1968 | #927 | 125 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #1,209 | 77 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #1,335 | 66 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #1,497 | 57 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #2,094 | 32 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,957 | 18 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 | — | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenya! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kenya
- 828 spots since 2024 (#1,657 → #2,485)
- 1,279 spots since 2020 (#1,206 → #2,485)
- 1,593 spots since 2015 (#892 → #2,485)
- Biggest jump: 282 spots in 1968 (#1,209 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 2015 (#700 → #892)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1973 at #275 (894 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1968–2017
- Highest: 1 in 1,631 girls born in 1973 were named Kenya (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.6% of all girls named Kenya (6,502) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 89 | #2,663 (1958) | #3,609 |
| 1960s | 691 | #670 (1969) | #1,731 |
| 1970s | 6,502 | #275 (1973) | #364 |
| 1980s | 3,440 | #420 (1980) | #592 |
| 1990s | 5,220 | #375 (1993) | #492 |
| 2000s | 5,069 | #508 (2000) | #567 |
| 2010s | 3,553 | #534 (2012) | #822 |
| 2020s | 848 | #1,206 (2020) | #1,610 |
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.
Kenya in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 5,220 of them was named Kenya, which outranked 95.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 189,925 of them was named Kenya, which outranked 47.8% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,009Zyiere11
- #7,009Zymiere11
- #7,009Zyren11
- #7,502Kenya10
- #7,502Aashrith10
- #7,502Aazim10
- #7,502Abanoub10
- #8,079Aarian9
- #8,079Aarib9
- #8,079Aarron9
Tied with 576 names at #7,502; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.