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Kenya
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Origin and Meaning
English nameF from the name of the African country. The country is named for Mount Kenya, which in the Kikuyu language is called Kĩrĩnyaga meaning 'the one having stripes'. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the 1960s [1]
Related Names
| Kenya | ♀ |
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Kenyuson |
|
Female
| Kenyudóttir |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kenya |
| Genitive: | Kenyas |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kenya |
| Genitive: | Kenyan |
| Partitive: | Kenyaa |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kenya |
| Accusative: | Kenyu |
| Dative: | Kenyu |
| Genitive: | Kenyu |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kenya |
| Genitive: | Kenyas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Kenya |
| Genitive: | Kenyas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Sweden: 1975 [2]
- Finland: ca 1975 [3]
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 24 May 2022 [4]
Statistics
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Kenya.
References
- ↑ Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is