Kenisha
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Kenisha by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Kenisha. In the US, 17 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 313 babies in 1978, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kenisha
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.
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