Recorded 1961–2024 · United States
Kenyatta was most popular in 1975, when 443 American babies were given the name — ranking #807 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,471 people named Kenyatta.
Kenyatta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1961, which makes it about 64 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 64 of the 65 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,471 American births named Kenyatta between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 7,120 are estimated to be alive today.
Kenyatta was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Kenyatta is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 14 births a year, against 30 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -54% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Kenyatta is a unisex name — 57.0% of the 7,471 Americans given it were girls and 43.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2008 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 23% girls and 77% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 7,120 Americans named Kenyatta are alive today — 95% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 43 years old, and half are between 32 and 50.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org