How popular is “Kenya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenya” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kenya” 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 “Kenya” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kenya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenya” 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
1952	5	0.000001316	5		100%
1954	11	0.000002763	11		100%
1955	14	0.000003487	14		100%
1956	8	0.00000194	8		100%
1957	13	0.000003094	13		100%
1958	19	0.000004596	19		100%
1959	19	0.00000457	19		100%
1960	19	0.000004574	19		100%
1961	18	0.000004345	18		100%
1962	29	0.000007186	29		100%
1963	32	0.000008084	32		100%
1964	70	0.000018006	57	13	63%
1965	55	0.000015171	49	6	78%
1966	74	0.000021291	66	8	78%
1967	89	0.000026216	77	12	73%
1968	142	0.000042032	125	17	76%
1969	265	0.000076252	219	46	65%
1970	402	0.000111465	335	67	67%
1971	457	0.000133145	398	59	74%
1972	660	0.000209991	556	104	68%
1973	1039	0.000344395	894	145	72%
1974	943	0.000310197	812	131	72%
1975	993	0.000328874	863	130	74%
1976	819	0.000269914	713	106	74%
1977	832	0.000261924	712	120	71%
1978	717	0.000225907	589	128	64%
1979	700	0.0002104	630	70	80%
1980	579	0.000168094	520	59	80%
1981	473	0.00013673	416	57	76%
1982	455	0.000129705	411	44	81%
1983	422	0.000121848	389	33	84%
1984	336	0.000096309	314	22	87%
1985	309	0.000086576	290	19	88%
1986	259	0.000072813	239	20	85%
1987	264	0.000073219	249	15	89%
1988	281	0.000076048	263	18	87%
1989	380	0.000098844	349	31	84%
1990	400	0.000101202	366	34	83%
1991	401	0.000102946	366	35	83%
1992	507	0.000131988	473	34	87%
1993	722	0.000191498	682	40	89%
1994	719	0.000193402	681	38	89%
1995	697	0.000190325	673	24	93%
1996	634	0.000173832	600	34	89%
1997	475	0.000131007	452	23	90%
1998	519	0.000141101	471	48	82%
1999	487	0.00013184	456	31	87%
2000	552	0.000146035	524	28	90%
2001	497	0.000132767	466	31	88%
2002	526	0.000140706	493	33	87%
2003	490	0.000128869	475	15	94%
2004	459	0.000120128	432	27	88%
2005	489	0.000127183	466	23	91%
2006	598	0.000151156	578	20	93%
2007	600	0.000150087	587	13	96%
2008	584	0.000148575	570	14	95%
2009	489	0.000128005	478	11	96%
2010	409	0.000110668	395	14	93%
2011	347	0.000094866	337	10	94%
2012	584	0.000159678	569	15	95%
2013	479	0.000131389	469	10	96%
2014	409	0.00011035	403	6	97%
2015	316	0.000085384	309	7	96%
2016	333	0.000090768	326	7	96%
2017	287	0.000080253	275	12	92%
2018	251	0.00007139	242	9	93%
2019	235	0.000067705	228	7	94%
2020	190	0.000056876	190		100%
2021	162	0.000047817	162		100%
2022	166	0.000049067	166		100%
2023	135	0.000040771	135		100%
2024	131	0.000039357	123	8	88%

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