Kenta

Kenta
Pronunciation	Ken-ta
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	"healthy", "strong"
Region of origin	Japan
Other names
Related names	Kentarō

Kenta (廉侍) is a masculine Japanese given name. (written: 健太, 建太, 研太, 賢太 or ケンタ in katakana).

Notable people with the name include:

Kenta Abe (阿部健太, born 1984), Japanese baseball player
Kenta Fukasaku (深作健太, born 1972), Japanese film director
Kenta Hayashi (林健太, born 1994), Japanese kickboxer
Kenta Kobashi (小橋建太, born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler
Kenta Kobayashi (小林健太, born 1981), Japanese professional wrestler known in WWE as Hideo Itami, and otherwise his first name stylized in all caps
Kenta Hasegawa (長谷川健太, born 1965), Japanese international football player
Kenta Ito (伊藤研太, born 1999), Japanese footballer
Kenta Kato (加藤健太, born 1987), Japanese footballer
Kenta Maeda (前田健太, born 1988), Japanese baseball player
Kenta Matsudaira (松平健太, born 1991), Japanese table tennis player
Kenta Miyake (三宅健太, born 1977), Japanese voice actor
Kenta Miyawaki (宮脇健太, born 2001), Japanese footballer
Kenta Nagasawa (長澤憲大, born 1993), Japanese judoka
Kenta Nishizawa (西澤健太, born 1996), Japanese footballer
Kenta Shimaoka (島岡健太, born 1973), Japanese footballer
Kenta Shimizu (清水健太, born 1981), Japanese footballer
Kenta Takada (髙田健太, born 1995), Japanese singer, member of South Korean groups JBJ and JBJ95
Kenta Takanashi (高梨健太, born 1997), Japanese volleyball player
Kenta Tanaka (田中健太, born 1988), Japanese field hockey player
Kenta Yamazaki (山崎健太, born 1987), Japanese footballer
Kenta Yanagida (柳田健太, born 1995), Japanese footballer
Kenta Yoshikawa (吉川健太, born 1986), Japanese footballer

Fictional characters[edit]

Kenta (Black Mask) (ケンタ) in Hikari Sentai Maskman
Kenta (ケンタ) in Ani-Yoko
Kenta Date (a.k.a. MegaRed) (伊達健太) in Denji Sentai Megaranger
Kenta Kitagawa (北川健太) in Digimon Tamers
Kenta, civilian name of Lung, a villain in the web publication Worm

Fictional characters[edit]

See also[edit]