Kenn
Kenn was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 756 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,210, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1958, the peak
Kenn peaked in 1958, when 29 boys were given it, #1,465 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #13,210 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,511 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,098 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,698 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,084 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,651 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,473 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,879 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,691 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,494 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #10,057 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,304 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,491 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,407 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,742 | 4.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,936 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,009 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,214 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,287 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,516 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,285 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,325 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,404 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,802 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,739 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,370 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,982 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,212 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,132 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,044 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,940 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,485 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,507 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,684 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,259 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,149 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,086 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,633 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,962 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,636 | 12.0 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,930 | 8.9 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,649 | 11.6 |
| 1961 | 27 | #1,562 | 12.7 |
| 1960 | 24 | #1,671 | 11.3 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,608 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,465 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,865 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,699 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,006 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,002 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,000 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,323 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,100 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,071 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,173 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,903 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,120 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,091 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,192 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,684 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,652 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,459 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,775 | 6.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,789 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenn, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Kenn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 44 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Kenn (26 women and girls, 1,106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 630 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kenn rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 83,317 babies since 1880, Kenn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 603 babies recorded by SSA was a Kenn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kenn
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 Kenn and names like it
- Compare Kenn and KenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKenn peaked in 1958.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenn since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Kenn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kenn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.