Kennya
Girl · KEN-ya
Kennya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Kennya mean?
Spelling of Kenya; from the country, named after Mount Kenya
Named after the East African country, which takes its name from Mount Kenya.
- Say it
- KEN-ya
Meaning borrowed from Kenya.
Is Kennya a girl's or a boy's name?
Kennya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kennya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kennya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the girls named Kennya in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 261 girls in the US were given Kennya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #906, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kennya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,046 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,168 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,087 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,276 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,878 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,953 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,707 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,413 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
Names like Kennya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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