Kennan
Kennan was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,644 among boys’ names; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Kennan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kennan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kennan?
#6,644 among boys’ names, 2025
Kennan fell from #5,406 in 2015 to #6,644 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 7.6 per million.
46 babies in 2000, the peak
Kennan peaked in 2000, when 46 babies were given it (35 boys, #2,648 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,644 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,333 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,079 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,037 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,523 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,361 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,055 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,014 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,500 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,435 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,406 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,622 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,543 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,314 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,950 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,860 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,509 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,877 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,160 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,946 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,491 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,618 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,884 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,911 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,896 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,648 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,900 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,577 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,939 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,565 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,253 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,275 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,612 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,568 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,713 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,115 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,510 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,439 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,891 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,550 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,699 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,573 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,326 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,817 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,749 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,515 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,734 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,729 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,878 | 4.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,941 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,214 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,800 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,174 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,254 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,777 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,397 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,549 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,965 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,607 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,237 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,104 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,377 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,073 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,424 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,739 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,086 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,497 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,532 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,618 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,980 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kennan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,276 Americans recorded as Kennan, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kennan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kennan, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,276 Americans ever recorded as Kennan. The median Kennan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,157 people named Kennan (129 women and girls, 1,028 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 101 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 487 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 38,023 babies since 1880, Kennan is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 433 babies (3.0%), again the sixth most given.
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 Kennan
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 Kennan and names like it
- Compare Kennan and KeenanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKennan peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kennan since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kennan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kennan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.