Kenayah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kenayah by the numbers

Kenayah was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Kenayah

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kenayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Keniyah24 in the US (2017)
  • Kenyah12 in the US (2017)
  • Kenaya5 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kenyathe mountain; geographic place name287 in the US (2017)
  • Kelaiahgod has lightened or diminished3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Keziyahgod is my strength; a form of Hezekiah9 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kenayah

Names that are said the same way as Kenayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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