Kinte

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Kinte by the numbers

Its American peak was 104 babies in 1977, making it a 1970s name.

What we can tell you about Kinte

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

  • Kiante7 in the US (2017)
  • Kionte5 in the US (2017)
  • Kainespear; a variant of Cain or Kane200 in the US (2017)
  • Kanyethe only one13 in the US (2017)
  • Klintfrom a cliff; a form of clint7 in the US (2017)
  • Kinley1,019 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kinte

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