Kenji — #854 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kenji

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,373 babies named Kenji between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kenji currently holds the #854 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 336 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenji performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,441 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kenji shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,431 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenji in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenji 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 5,373 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.