Kenia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kenya (a country in East Africa)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kenja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kenia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 45th most common given name.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 455(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 820
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 455 (inferred from the name graph)
21,407 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kenya (a country in East Africa)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kenia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 21,407 | 1 in 9.9K | 23K | Kenia | 127 |
| HN Honduras | #45 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 455 | — | Kenia | 34 |
| US United States | — | 14,680 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Kenia | 298 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #59 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Kenia | 42 |
| SV El Salvador | #239 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Kenia | 28 |
| NI Nicaragua | #120 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Kenia | 31 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,520 | 1 in 3.1K | 5.5K | Kenia | 35 |
21,407 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kenia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, Kenya (a country in East Africa; capital: Nairobi)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kenia Canob. 1972MXMexican writer and painter
- Kenia Rodríguezb. 1973CUCuban judoka
- Kenia López Rabadánb. 1974MXMexican politician
- Kenia Sinclairb. 1980JMathletics competitor
- Kenia Carcacesb. 1986CUFemale volleyball player from Cuba
- Kenia Sanchezb. 1992MXMexican association football player
- Kenia Lechugab. 1994MXMexican rower
- Kenia Rangelb. 1995PAPanamanian football player
- Kenia Osb. 1999MXMexican influencer, YouTuber and singer
- Kenia Maldonadob. 2000HNHonduran association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23K | #1,290 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21K | #1,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,921 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.5K | #326 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 130 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 101 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #1,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 76 | #1,921 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kenia mean, and where does it come from?
- Kenya (a country in East Africa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kenia?
- A machine transcription gives /kenja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Kenia a male or female name?
- Kenia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kenia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Kenia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenia.
- How common is the name Kenia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21,407 people named Kenia in 2022, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Kenia compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Kenia is the 45th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kenia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keniaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kenia” — the 45th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.