Kennia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEN-ya
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Kennia is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Kennia mean?
Spelling of Kenia; Spanish spelling of Kenya, named after Mount Kenya
The Spanish spelling of Kenya, the East African country named after Mount Kenya.
Meaning borrowed from Kenia.
Is Kennia a girl's or a boy's name?
Kennia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kennia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 74% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kennia, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
Half of all the girls named Kennia in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 261 girls in the US were given Kennia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #906, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Kennia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,074 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,703 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,650 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,936 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,522 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,084 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,505 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,110 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,200 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,001 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,830 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,909 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
Names like Kennia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Cassidy Brynn Kiara Kaitlyn Mckenna Devyn Brooklyn Keegan Kenley Brynlee Kinley
Other spellings of Kennia
Names related to Kennia
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kennia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kennia, updated 20 October 2026.