Kenyatta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A musician
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/cɛɲaʈə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kenyatta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 156K
- KEKenya≈1 in 41K
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)
- Sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
5,551 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A musician
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kenyatta 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 | 5,551 | 1 in 60K | 3.3K | Kenyatta | 326 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Kenyatta | 1 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | — | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 156K | listed | Kenyatta | 29 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kenyatta | 23 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Kenyatta | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 12 | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | 2 |
5,551 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kenyatta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Jomo, president, Kenya
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
East African: 'musician'
as a nameAfrican Names
In ki, Kikuyu (Kenya): name of Kikuyu origin
as a nameAfrican Names
In Croatian, kenijski političar, istaknuti prvoborac za nezavisnost afričkih zemalja, posebno Kenije, predsjednik Republike Kenije (1964—1978)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Kenyatta Johnsonb. 1973USAmerican politician
- Buckshotb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Kenyatta Beasleyb. 1976USjazz musician
- Ken Johnsonb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1978)
- Kenyatta Wrightb. 1978USAmerican football player
- Kenyatta Jonesb. 1979USplayer of American football (1979-2018)
- Kenyatta Walkerb. 1979USAll-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, offensive tackle
- Kenyatta Burdenb. 1980USbasketball player
- Ken Carsonb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 2000)
- Kenyatta ClydeUSbasketball 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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #3,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #3,667 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 226 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 217 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 198 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 187 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 182 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 161 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 161 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 160 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 158 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 153 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Kenyatta mean, and where does it come from?
- A musician Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Kenyatta?
- A machine transcription gives /cɛɲaʈə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kenyatta a male or female name?
- Kenyatta 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 Kenyatta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Kenyatta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenyatta.
- How common is the name Kenyatta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,551 people named Kenyatta in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenyattaThe 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, “Kenyatta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.