Kento — #7380 US boys' name
517 babies named Kento in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 48% of names given to boys today.
36% of everyone ever named Kento was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Kento in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kento
The Social Security Administration has registered 517 babies named Kento between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kento currently holds the #7380 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kento performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 185 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kento shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 113 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kento in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kento 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 517 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.
Kento at a glance
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Current rank
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Kento popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1984
- Peak year (2018)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
Currently ranks #7380 among boys.
517 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 28 births in a single year.
Kento by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 185 births that decade — 36% of Kento's all-time total
Kento decade highlights
- Peak decade 185 births
- Runner-up 131 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kento's strongest decade
185 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Kento by state
Where Kento concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 113 | 21.9% |
113 of 517 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 21.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 21.9% 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, 1984–2024 (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.