Kenrick
Kenrick was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,372 among boys’ names; 1,265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Kenrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenrick?
#11,372 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenrick fell from #5,626 in 2015 to #11,372 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
36 babies in 1990, the peak
Kenrick peaked in 1990, when 36 boys were given it, #2,057 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,372 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,334 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,510 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,525 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,832 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,334 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,176 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,327 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,698 | 11.1 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,626 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #6,476 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,716 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,313 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,106 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,447 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,511 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,640 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,301 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,602 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,408 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,697 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,021 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,267 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,788 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,138 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,321 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,824 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,214 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,566 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,882 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,277 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,317 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,379 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,921 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,057 | 17.5 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,649 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,804 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,892 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,257 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,390 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,264 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,050 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,242 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,926 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,937 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,279 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,851 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,317 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,014 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,323 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,865 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,275 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,374 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,086 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,354 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,365 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,998 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,119 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,727 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,966 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,192 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,173 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,805 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,778 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,941 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,427 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,777 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,375 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,346 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,534 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,042 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,236 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,436 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,945 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,164 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenrick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenrick, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,265 Americans ever recorded as Kenrick. The median Kenrick alive today is 34 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,701 people named Kenrick (9 women and girls, 1,692 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 86 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 236 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 381 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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).
Where are babies named Kenrick born?
The states with the most babies named Kenrick are New York, California and Florida, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 146 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kenrick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenrick is most over-represented in New York: since 1945 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenrick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,204 babies since 1880, Kenrick is the most given (57% of them).
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 Kenrick
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 Kenrick and names like it
- Compare Kenrick and KenricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKenrick peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenrick since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kenrick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kenrick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.