girls:
820 births since 1971
#4896 (14th percentile)
boys:
306 births since 1971
#4280 (7th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1971
#6613 (15th percentile)
The name Kenyata is the #6,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,126 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 14.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,896 (14.3% percentile) for all time with 820 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,280 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1971.
Kenyata first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 . Birth data for Kenyata is available in 36 out of the 49 years between 1971 and 2019 (34 years for girls and 27 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kenyata has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Kenyata were girls.
For girls, Kenyata reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #761) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Kenyata reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #635) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenyata".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kenyata. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Kenyata is pronounced as keh-NYAH-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-nyah-tuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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