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Kenyada

Kenyada is a girl's name that peaked in 1982, when it was the 2,704th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 680 Kenyadas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Girls and boys called Kenyada

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 565 girls and 146 boys in all, and in 1995 the split was 22 to 5.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
711
Estimated living today
680
Median age today
39
Peak year
1982
Best rank
2,704th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1972
Girls / boys
565 / 146

How old the living Kenyadas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 711 babies given the name since 1972, about 680 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 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.

Where Kenyada is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1982

The most popular girls’ names the year Kenyada peaked:

All the names of 1982

Related names

Kenyada 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.