Keny — boys' name

What the Data Says About Keny

The Social Security Administration has registered 217 babies named Keny between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keny currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Keny is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keny performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Keny shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Keny in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keny 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 217 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.