Kenta

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kenta by the numbers

Kenta was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 48 babies in 1977, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Kenta

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 Kenta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kena21 in the US (2017)
  • Keita16 in the US (2017)
  • Keonta5 in the US (2017)
  • Keenasmall keen one; a form of Keenan13 in the US (2017)
  • Kennansmall keen one13 in the US (2017)
  • Kealathe path or way10 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kenta

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