Keny
Keny was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 228 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,596, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2010, the peak
Keny peaked in 2010, when 16 boys were given it, #5,614 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #8,596 | 5.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,177 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,221 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,226 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,293 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,452 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,614 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,037 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,678 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,363 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 14 | #5,957 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,655 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,293 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,512 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,962 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,345 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,527 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,580 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,962 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,270 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,405 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,311 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,156 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,594 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,137 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,917 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 228 Americans recorded as Keny, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keny, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Keny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,010 people named Keny (405 women and girls, 605 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Keny 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).
How common is the spelling Keny?
Keny is a less common spelling of Kenny: SSA has recorded 228 Keny and 52,479 Kenny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,276 babies since 1880, Keny is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,080 babies recorded by SSA was a Keny (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keny
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 Keny and names like it
- Compare Keny and KennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeny peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keny since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Keny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.