Kenzi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Nubian language of Egypt
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Kenzi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 125K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 170K
- NLNetherlands1 in 182K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
2,671 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A Nubian language of Egypt.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kenzi 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 | 2,671 | 1 in 125K | 2.6K | Kenzi | 12 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Kenzi | 5 |
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 1.1K | Kenzi | 121 |
| MA Morocco | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Kenzi | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 95 | 1 in 182K | 73 | — | — |
2,671 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)Kenzi 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 otk, a Chinese woven fabric of mixed colours
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)- Kenzi Marieb. 1987USAmerican pornographic actress (born 1987)
- Kenzi Richardsonb. 2011USAmerican actress
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,099 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #6,099 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 73 | #6,718 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 66 | #10,134 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 47 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 22 | #11,050 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 19 | #20,122 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Kenzi mean, and where does it come from?
- A Nubian language of Egypt. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kenzi a male or female name?
- Kenzi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Kenzi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Kenzi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenzi.
- How common is the name Kenzi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,671 people named Kenzi in 2020, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kenzi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenziThe 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, “Kenzi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.