Kennia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/cenɲja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kennia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 292K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 21K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 23K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
859 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kennia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 859 | 1 in 387K | 850 | Kennia | 98 |
| BR Brazil | — | 725 | 1 in 292K | 725 | Kennia | 52 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kennia | 13 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kennia | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kennia | 22 |
| CR Costa Rica | #676 | 245 | 1 in 21K | 245 | Kennia | 14 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Kennia | 10 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kennia | 6 |
859 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 850 | #13,890 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 725 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 722 | #10,351 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 626 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 585 | #12,991 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 581 | #6,686 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 447 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 259 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 245 | #1,305 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 188 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 141 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Kennia?
- A machine transcription gives /cenɲja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Kennia a male or female name?
- Kennia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Kennia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 859 people named Kennia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kennia.
- Where is Kennia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kennia is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kennia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 859 people named Kennia in 2020, about 1 in 387 thousand residents.
- How common is Kennia compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Kennia is the 676th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kennia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenniaThe 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, “Kennia” — the 676th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.