---
id: "ke_maisha_namba"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["KE"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 68
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ke_maisha_namba"
---

# Kenyan Maisha Namba (unique personal identifier) (`ke_maisha_namba`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Maisha Namba, the lifelong 9-digit unique personal identifier that the National Registration Bureau of Kenya has issued since October 2023, also at birth, and that serves as the ID number of new registrants. Holders of second-generation identity cards keep their old ID number, which is often shorter, as their identifier; the regexp covers only the 9-digit Maisha Namba.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Kenya (KE)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{9}$
```

## Examples

- `304817265` — Synthetic value in the documented format
- `30481726` (invalid example) — Eight digits, the length of many older ID numbers

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/kajiado-central-residents-sensitised-on-maisha-namba/>
- doc: <https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/national-registration-department-to-launch-digital-personal-identity-in-october/>

## Quality

Score 68/100. Missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ke_maisha_namba.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/KE/persons/ke_maisha_namba.yaml>