Kenden
Kenden was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,007 among boys’ names; 359 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenden?
#13,007 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenden fell from #4,627 in 2015 to #13,007 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 2.9 per million.
23 babies in 2006, the peak
Kenden peaked in 2006, when 23 boys were given it, #4,160 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,007 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,262 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,275 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,472 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,409 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,536 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,193 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,538 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 21 | #4,627 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,163 | 9.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 21 | #4,542 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,467 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,754 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,143 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,508 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,472 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,300 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,160 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,741 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,983 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,998 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,075 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,783 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,589 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,587 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenden, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Kenden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 310 people named Kenden (11 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenden
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.