Kenyatta
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
Given to girls 57.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 217 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,255since 1962
Kenyatta 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | — | #8,255 | 9 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | — | #6,104 | 14 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | — | #5,297 | 17 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | #3,782 | 26 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 | #2,419 | 46 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 | #2,092 | 51 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | #1,666 | 69 |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | #1,671 | 63 |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #2,116 | 66 | #1,550 | 66 |
| 1996 | #1,669 | 91 | #1,454 | 70 |
| 1995 | #1,531 | 100 | #1,603 | 57 |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 105 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #1,372 | 120 | #1,493 | 62 |
| 1992 | #1,301 | 130 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #1,160 | 151 | #1,699 | 48 |
| 1990 | #1,154 | 149 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #1,471 | 99 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #1,292 | 112 | #1,909 | 34 |
| 1987 | #1,222 | 117 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #1,314 | 101 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #1,193 | 118 | #1,794 | 33 |
| 1984 | #1,044 | 135 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,049 | 132 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,088 | 130 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #1,004 | 145 | #1,177 | 61 |
| 1980 | #925 | 161 | #871 | 104 |
| 1979 | #799 | 198 | #798 | 118 |
| 1978 | #801 | 187 | #666 | 158 |
| 1977 | #918 | 153 | #668 | 160 |
| 1976 | #849 | 161 | #603 | 182 |
| 1975 | #688 | 217 | #533 | 226 |
| 1974 | #1,013 | 118 | #665 | 148 |
| 1973 | #963 | 123 | #671 | 142 |
| 1972 | #923 | 133 | #752 | 111 |
| 1971 | #1,594 | 59 | #786 | 105 |
| 1970 | #1,490 | 67 | #898 | 80 |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 | #1,265 | 39 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #1,609 | 23 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | #1,891 | 17 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #2,476 | 11 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenyatta! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017–2019, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kenyatta
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 671 spots in 1972 (#1,594 → #923)
- Biggest drop: 161 spots in 1976 (#688 → #849)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1975 at #688 (217 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1975–1980
- Highest: 1 in 6,718 girls born in 1975 were named Kenyatta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Kenyatta (1,416) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 100 | #2,254 (1969) | #4,287 |
| 1970s | 1,416 | #688 (1975) | #1,004 |
| 1980s | 1,250 | #925 (1980) | #1,160 |
| 1990s | 1,051 | #1,154 (1990) | #1,617 |
| 2000s | 343 | #2,844 (2001) | #4,372 |
| 2010s | 78 | #7,783 (2011) | #11,256 |
| 2020s | 17 | #13,453 (2020) | #14,060 |
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.
Kenyatta in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,192 of them was named Kenyatta, which outranked 93.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 10,391 of them was named Kenyatta, which outranked 90.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).