girls:
4.2k births since 1962
#2634 (54th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1961
#2204 (52nd percentile)
overall:
7.5k births since 1961
#3127 (60th percentile)
The name Kenyatta is the #3,127 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,456 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 59.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,634 (53.9% percentile) for all time with 4,249 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #2,204 (51.9% percentile) for all time with 3,207 births since 1961.
Kenyatta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1962 for girls).
The name Kenyatta has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (57.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Kenyatta were girls.
For girls, Kenyatta reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 27.8% percentile (ranked #544) with 139 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 139 births per million (ranked 27.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Kenyatta reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 31.6% percentile (ranked #452) with 139 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 139 births per million (ranked 31.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kenyatta ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenyatta".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kenyatta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Kenyatta is pronounced as keh-NYAH-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-nyah-tuh, at 10.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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