Kenaz
Kenaz was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,324 among boys’ names; 132 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenaz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenaz?
#9,324 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenaz fell from #8,394 in 2015 to #9,324 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 4.7 per million.
12 babies in 2008, the peak
Kenaz peaked in 2008, when 12 boys were given it, #6,985 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,324 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,260 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,151 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,808 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,394 | 4.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,285 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,460 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,985 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,590 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,734 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #8,719 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,471 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,187 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,805 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,958 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,825 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenaz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenaz has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenaz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenaz, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Kenaz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 154 people named Kenaz (13 women and girls, 141 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 50% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenaz
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.