Kentavious — #7919 US boys' name
749 babies named Kentavious in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 44% of names given to boys today.
43% of everyone ever named Kentavious was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Kentavious in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kentavious
The Social Security Administration has registered 749 babies named Kentavious between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kentavious currently holds the #7919 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kentavious performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 321 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kentavious shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 270 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Kentavious in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kentavious 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 749 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.
Kentavious at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Kentavious popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1982
- Peak year (2006)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
Currently ranks #7919 among boys.
749 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 49 births in a single year.
Kentavious by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 321 births that decade — 43% of Kentavious's all-time total
Kentavious decade highlights
- Peak decade 321 births
- Runner-up 211 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kentavious's strongest decade
321 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Kentavious by state
Where Kentavious concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 270 | 36.0% |
| #2 | Mississippi | | 34 | 4.5% |
| #3 | Alabama | | 27 | 3.6% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.7% |
270 of 749 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 36.0% of nationwide
- Mississippi 4.5% of nationwide
- Alabama 3.6% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 36.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.