Girl · Cornish
Kerensa
Say it: keh-REN-zuh
Meaning
Cornish kerensa 'love'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Cornish word taken up as a girls' name in the 20th-century revival.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 451 babies given this name since 1965
- At its height in 1974, about 1 in 48,900 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kerenza
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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