Kento
Kento was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,214 among boys’ names; 524 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kento by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kento?
#10,214 among boys’ names, 2025
Kento fell from #4,972 in 2015 to #10,214 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 4.1 per million.
28 babies in 2018, the peak
Kento peaked in 2018, when 28 boys were given it, #3,834 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,214 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,518 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,108 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,513 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,510 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,787 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,258 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,834 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,026 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,549 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,972 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,599 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,837 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,166 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,439 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,369 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,690 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,168 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,455 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,431 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,723 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,643 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,030 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,586 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,745 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,912 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,303 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,881 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,756 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,337 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,967 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,866 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,075 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,239 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,241 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,453 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,989 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kento a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kento has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kento: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kento, and how old are they?
An estimated 515 Americans named Kento and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 507 people named Kento (1 woman or girl, 506 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kento rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Kento born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 113 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Kento is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kento is most over-represented in California: since 1984 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 Kento 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,596 babies since 1880, Kento is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 28 babies (25%), again the third 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 Kento
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 Kento and names like it
- Compare Kento and KeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKento peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kento since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kento.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kento alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.