Kenyatta

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kenyatta by the numbers

Kenyatta was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 226 babies in 1975, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Kenyatta

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

Sounds like Kenyatta

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

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