Kenyan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Kenyan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kenyan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Kenyan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Kenyan ranks at #3,985. That means there are 3,984 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kenyan.
In fact, the name Kenyan did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Kenyan seemed to be more popular than ever in 2006. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,863, 65 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kenyan, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kenyan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Kenyan a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #5,277 - with a total of 14 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Kenyan. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 71 Americans who bear this name. And these 71 men and boys named Kenyan live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Michigan. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Kenyan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kenyan and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Kenyan relative to its male population is North Carolina. And even there, only one male in 416,899 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Kenyan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Kenyan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kenyan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kenyan, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Nut
Yoyo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kenyan
Kenyan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
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A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kenyan sounds like this:
