Kenna — #724 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kenna

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,173 babies named Kenna between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenna currently holds the #724 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 444 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenna performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,647 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Kenna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,109 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenna in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenna 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 13,173 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.