Kenan — #1131 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kenan

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,460 babies named Kenan between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kenan currently holds the #1131 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 187 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kenan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 305 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenan in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,460 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.