Kennon
Kennon was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,001 among boys’ names; 1,826 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Kennon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 21 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kennon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kennon?
#6,001 among boys’ names, 2025
Kennon fell from #4,628 in 2015 to #6,001 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 8.8 per million.
35 babies in 1991, the peak
Kennon peaked in 1991, when 35 babies were given it (30 boys, #2,365 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,001 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,779 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,578 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,936 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,455 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,949 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,967 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,664 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,413 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,697 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,628 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,165 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,084 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,378 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,323 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,943 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,036 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,630 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,188 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,050 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,772 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,047 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,324 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,617 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,284 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,854 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,320 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,549 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,522 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,610 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,467 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,987 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,308 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,401 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,365 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,525 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,265 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,401 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,032 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,646 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,467 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,400 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,535 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,185 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,451 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,673 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,278 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,899 | 16.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,316 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,144 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,403 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,812 | 16.5 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,799 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,947 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,890 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,595 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,185 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,627 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 28 | #1,463 | 16.1 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,703 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,837 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,450 | 15.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,722 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,928 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,482 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,012 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,893 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,728 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,866 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,746 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,936 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,854 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,653 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,781 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,567 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,726 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,907 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,172 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,438 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,919 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,323 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,550 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,949 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,820 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,323 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,768 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,537 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,026 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,343 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,374 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,924 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,152 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,061 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,287 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,290 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,541 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,988 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,810 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,583 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,066 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,133 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,898 | 9.1 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,850 | 9.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kennon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,826 Americans recorded as Kennon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Kennon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kennon, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,826 Americans ever recorded as Kennon. The median Kennon alive today is 37 years old; half are between 21 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 1,418 people named Kennon (133 women and girls, 1,285 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,479 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 322 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 348 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 218 |
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 52,620 babies since 1880, Kennon is the seventh most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 595 babies (2.5%), again the seventh 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 Kennon
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 Kennon and names like it
- Compare Kennon and KeenanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKennon peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kennon since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kennon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kennon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.