Kenta
Kenta is a masculine Japanese given name..
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Kenta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kenta is a masculine Japanese given name..
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Kenta
Kenta first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1973, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1977: 48 births, good for #1,290 nationwide. About 31% of every Kenta on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Kenta last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 704 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kenta
Kenta is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1973 and has accumulated 704 births in the dataset. Kenta's peak popularity came in 1977 when it ranked #1,290. Use the chart and map above to compare Kenta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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