Kenyatta

Where Kenyatta comes from

Kenyatta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #5,860 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #688
    217 babies named Kenyatta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    Kenyatta Walker born
    All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, offensive tackle
  4. 1979
    Kenyatta Jones born
    player of American football
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,314.
  6. 2016
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kenyatta Jones · player of American football, 1979–2018
  • Kenyatta Walker · All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, offensive tackle, born 1979
  • Kenyatta Johnson · American politician, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.