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Kenisha

The girl's name Kenisha has been in the national records since 1973, with 4,024 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 3,900 Kenishas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kenisha boys named Kenisha

By the numbers

Total US births
4,024
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
36
Peak year
1978
Best rank
557th
Rank in 2025
10,107th
First recorded
1973
Girls / boys
4,019 / 5

How old the living Kenishas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,024 babies given the name since 1973, about 3,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kenisha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kenisha is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.8×), Louisiana (3.0×), Florida (2.9×), Georgia (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1978

The most popular girls’ names the year Kenisha peaked:

All the names of 1978

Kenisha elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kenisha 77 3,519th
France girls Kenisha 5 6,308th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.