Unisex name · since 1975
Kenyell
Kenyell has 22 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1975 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 22
- total births
- 1975–1998
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Kenyell is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 22 have been recorded since 1975.
Kenyell has 22 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 1998.
- 22 total births
- 1975–1998 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kenyell's 22 recorded births place it above 38% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kenyell's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kenyell's full recorded timeline at 1987, 45% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 55% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1987, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1975 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kenyell popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–1998
- Peak year (1975)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 24 years of records
Kenyell popularity over time - boys
7 total births recorded since 1979 (Kenyell as boys' name)
Kenyell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kenyell's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Kenyell births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
11 births
- 1990s
1990s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 11 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Kenyell's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (11 total births) through the 1990s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kenyell: Baby Name Since 1975 - 22 Births, Peak 1975." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kenyell. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kenyell draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.