Kenza
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kenza is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic name from كنزة, related to 'treasure'.
- FRFrance1 in 3.4K◐
- MAMorocco1 in 3.7K
- BEBelgium1 in 5.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 273 ●
- 1 in 3.4K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
47K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled เคนซา in TH Thailand.
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●
Arabic name from كنزة, related to 'treasure'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #582 | 19,775 | 37K rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 20K | Kenza | 273 |
| MA Morocco | #401 | 4,155 | 3.3K rec. | — | 70 | Kenza | 72 |
| BE Belgium | #717 | 2,663 | 949 rec. | — | 27 | Kenza | 36 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,286 | 253 rec. | — | 2 | Kenza | 30 |
| DZ Algeria | #388 | 1,115 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Kenza | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 924△ | 295 rec. | 1 in 54K | 924 | Kenza | 35 |
| US United States | — | 732 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 454K | 732 | Kenza | 113 |
| TN Tunisia | #518 | 475 | 491 rec. | — | — | Kenza | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 443△ | 151 rec. | 1 in 39K | 443 | Kenza | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 332 | 226 rec. | — | listed | Kenza | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 270△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 38K | 270 | Kenza | 9 |
| AL Albania | — | 255 | — | 1 in 12K | 255 | — | — |
Roughly 20K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 3.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French122K83%
- Arabic5.3K4%
- English4.4K3%
- Spanish2.6K2%
- Swahili2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 122,177 | 83% |
| Arabic | 5,272 | 4% |
| English | 4,423 | 3% |
| Spanish | 2,620 | 2% |
| Swahili | 2,040 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kenza is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine arabe, signifie « trésor ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In xsi, green
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 13 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 31 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 39 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 47 |
| 2020 | 33 |
| 2021 | 47 |
| 2022 | 45 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2024 | 54 |
| 2025 | 61 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1987–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kenza El Ghalib. 1963MAMoroccan writer, politician and diplomat
- Kenza Braigab. 1976FRIraqi actress
- Kenza Dahmanib. 1980DZAlgerian long-distance runner
- Kenza Farahb. 1986DZFrench-Algerian singer
- Kenza Fouratib. 1987FRTunisian model
- Kenza Dalib. 1991FRFrench footballer
- Kenza Tazib. 1996MAMoroccan alpine skier
- Kenza Akhannouchb. 1997MAMoroccan businesswoman
- Kenza Fortasb. 2001FRFrench actress
- Kenza Chapelleb. 2002FRMoroccan and French footballer
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●
Attested in 59 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 20K | #203 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 924 | #3,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 763 | #1,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 732 | #15,472 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 501 | #1,162 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 443 | #2,181 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 397 | #3,712 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 270 | #4,219 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 255 | #1,540 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 166 | #5,498 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 164 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 96 | #1,660 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 304 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kenza?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Kenza (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kenza have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Kenza in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kenza.
- Where is Kenza most common?
- Kenza is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Kenza compared with other names?
- In France, Kenza is the 582nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Kenza a male or female name?
- Kenza 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 Kenza mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arabic name from كنزة, related to 'treasure'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Kenza” — the 582nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.