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How popular is “Kenta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenta” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kenta” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kenta” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kenta” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kenta” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kenta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenta” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1977 48 0.000015111 48 -100%
1978 24 0.000007562 5 19 -58%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 -100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 -100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 -100%
1989 15 0.000003902 15 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 -100%
1992 27 0.000007029 27 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 24 0.000006456 24 -100%
1995 25 0.000006827 25 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 -100%
1998 21 0.000005709 21 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 -100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 -100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 -100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 -100%

Explore other names

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  10. Kentarius
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