Takenya · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Takenya.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1974

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 28 recorded years as a table

Takenya, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1974	9
1975	7
1976	7
1977	12
1978	13
1979	12
1980	10
1981	10
1982	8
1983	4
1984	4
1985	5
1986	3
1989	4
1992	5
1993	7
1995	6
1996	3
1997	3
1998	10
1999	3
2000	4
2001	4
2002	3
2003	3
2004	5
2005	3
2006	5

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Takenya isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2006: 9
Rank in 2006: #11,417
How rare: 1 in 211,245 girls
Since 1974: 286

Takenya was last recorded in 2006. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1978, at 13 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Takenya doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.