Kenyan
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Kenyan by the numbers
Kenyan was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 60 babies in 2006, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kenyan
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 Kenyan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kenyan
Names that are said the same way as Kenyan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kenyonkeen or sharp edge70 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kenyan
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