Keneth
Keneth was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,007 among boys’ names; 1,467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keneth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keneth?
#7,007 among boys’ names, 2025
Keneth rose from #9,179 in 2015 to #7,007 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 7.0 per million.
29 babies in 1956, the peak
Keneth peaked in 1956, when 29 boys were given it, #1,466 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,007 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,675 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,078 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,036 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,158 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,156 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,331 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,226 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,306 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,235 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,179 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,458 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,223 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,165 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,105 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,255 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,218 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,262 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,726 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,302 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,573 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,132 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,050 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,811 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,527 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,474 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,283 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,579 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,816 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,267 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,963 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,693 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,217 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,921 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,286 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,591 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,862 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,660 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,463 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,283 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,329 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,419 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,516 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,180 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,733 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,147 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,394 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,292 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,153 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,624 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,817 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,489 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,418 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,448 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,945 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,664 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,297 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,740 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,539 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 23 | #1,679 | 11.5 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,721 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,496 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,103 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 25 | #1,642 | 11.7 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,940 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,750 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,143 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 29 | #1,466 | 13.7 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,095 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,859 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,148 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,976 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,195 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,852 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,909 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,530 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,209 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,808 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,821 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,389 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,119 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,910 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,144 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,405 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,761 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,654 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,143 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,015 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,689 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,488 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,963 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,622 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,743 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,730 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,706 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,735 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,155 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,651 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,272 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,135 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,034 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,415 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,561 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,679 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,432 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,626 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,354 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,829 | 10.1 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,194 | 15.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keneth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keneth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keneth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keneth, and how old are they?
An estimated 960 Americans named Keneth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 21 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,602 people named Keneth (23 women and girls, 2,579 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 984 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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).
How common is the spelling Keneth?
Keneth is a less common spelling of Kenneth: SSA has recorded 1,467 Keneth and 1,289,312 Kenneth since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,305,620 babies since 1880, Keneth is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,166 babies (1.0%), the second most given that year.
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keneth
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.
More about Keneth and names like it
- Compare Keneth and KennethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKeneth peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keneth since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Keneth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keneth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.