Kenya
The girl's name Kenya has been in the national records since 1952, with 27,553 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,485th. About 27,000 Kenyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kenya boys named Kenya
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,553
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1973
- Best rank
- 275th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,485th
- First recorded
- 1952
- Girls / boys
- 25,412 / 2,141
How old the living Kenyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,553 babies given the name since 1952, about 27,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 5,500 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Kenyas
- Kenya Matsui (born 1985)Japanese association football player
- Kenya Moore (born 1971)American actress, model, author, and entrepreneur
- Kenya Okazaki (born 1990)Japanese association football player
People named Kenya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kenya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kenya is most concentrated in Georgia (2.4×), Mississippi (2.3×), South Carolina (2.0×), Louisiana (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1973
The most popular girls’ names the year Kenya peaked:
Kenya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kenya | 384 | 869th |
| France girls | Kenya | 295 | 1,638th |
| France boys | Kenya | 5 | 5,212th |
| Scotland girls | Kenya | 3 | 722nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Kenya lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 334 women called Kenya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Kenya | 16 | 0.029 | 2,335 |
| Tarragona | Kenya | 12 | 0.027 | 1,912 |
| Cantabria | Kenya | 7 | 0.023 | 1,659 |
| León | Kenya | 5 | 0.022 | 1,822 |
| Girona | Kenya | 9 | 0.022 | 2,174 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Kenya | 7 | 0.022 | 2,111 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Kenya against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.