Girls' name · since 1953
Kennette
163 babies named Kennette in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 1969. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 163
- total births
- 1953–1990
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 42%
- born in that decade
163 girls have been named Kennette since 1953, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kennette has 163 recorded births among girls since 1953, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1953 to 1990.
- 163 total births
- 1953–1990 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 42% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kennette's 163 recorded births place it above 70% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kennette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kennette's SSA record in two at 1971 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1954, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1969 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kennette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1953–1990
- Peak year (1969)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 38 years of records
Kennette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Kennette's strongest decade.
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Kennette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 20
1950s
20 births
- 1960s
1960s
68 births
- 1970s
1970s
33 births
- 1980s
1980s
37 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 68 births (42% of all-time use).
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- Kennette's decade-level peak was the 1960s (68 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1953–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kennette: Baby Name Since 1953 - 163 Births, Peak 1969." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kennette. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kennette draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.