Kenly — #7762 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kenly

The Social Security Administration has registered 532 babies named Kenly between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenly currently holds the #7762 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Kenly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1981.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenly performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 280 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kenly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenly in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenly 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 532 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.