Meaning and history
This name is taken from the African country of Kenya, which itself was named after Mount Kenya; in Kikuyu, the mountain is called Kĩrĩnyaga, meaning “the one having stripes.” The name has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 1960s.
20062006: 578 births, rank #523
2007: 587 births, rank #534
2008: 570 births, rank #540
2009: 478 births, rank #629
2010: 395 births, rank #715
20112011: 337 births, rank #802
2012: 569 births, rank #534
2013: 469 births, rank #602
2014: 403 births, rank #700
2015: 309 births, rank #892
20162016: 326 births, rank #863
2017: 275 births, rank #964
2018: 242 births, rank #1,057
2019: 228 births, rank #1,092
2020: 190 births, rank #1,206
20212021: 162 births, rank #1,364
2022: 166 births, rank #1,381
2023: 135 births, rank #1,569
2024: 124 births, rank #1,657
20252025: 71 births, rank #2,485
Kenya moved from #863 to #964 for girls between 2016 and 2017. Its highest annual birth count came in 1973, with 894 births.