Kenia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Kenya in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 12 more and Quenia in DO Dominican Republic, CL Chile.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kenia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name4.2K records spelled Kenia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Bolivia

  Also written Kênia, Kénia

• Hindi given name749 records spelled Kenia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Peru

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Kênia

• Finnish given name471 records spelled Kenia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Spain, Italy

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Kenya, Keenia, Kênia

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 588 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kenia?

We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Kenia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Kenia have the most bearers?

Kenia is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled kenia.

How common is Kenia compared with other names?

In Mexico, Kenia is the 513th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Kenia mean?

Recorded meaning: Kenya (a country in East Africa)