Kenyon
Kenyon was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,706 among boys’ names; 8,164 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,300 Americans named Kenyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kenyon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kenyon is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kenyon?
#3,706 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenyon fell from #1,688 in 2015 to #3,706 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.5 to 17.6 per million.
323 babies in 2005, the peak
Kenyon peaked in 2005, when 323 boys were given it, #663 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,706 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,743 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,512 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,694 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,755 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,251 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 52 | #2,536 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,008 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #1,688 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,434 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,394 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 187 | #1,023 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,091 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 223 | #927 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 251 | #852 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 271 | #796 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 314 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 323 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 206 | #859 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 261 | #713 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 253 | #709 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 152 | #1,002 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 216 | #770 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 145 | #982 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 140 | #980 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 135 | #971 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,060 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,016 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 124 | #995 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,170 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,282 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,531 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 84 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,004 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 95 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 96 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 123 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 138 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 150 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 145 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 143 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 138 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 96 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 100 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 76 | #936 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 69 | #972 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,227 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,279 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,670 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 32 | #1,366 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,320 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 33 | #1,365 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 30 | #1,444 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,717 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,144 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,782 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,571 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,733 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,404 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,436 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,300 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,654 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,569 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,875 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,782 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,444 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,955 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,708 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,950 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,655 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,146 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,768 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,861 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,146 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,877 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,008 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,530 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,021 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,164 Americans recorded as Kenyon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenyon, and how old are they?
7,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 8,164 Americans ever recorded as Kenyon. The median Kenyon alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 6,047 people named Kenyon (215 women and girls, 5,832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 331 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 811 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Kenyon born?
The states with the most babies named Kenyon are California, Texas and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 478 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 416 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 341 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 295 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 268 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 241 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 232 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 226 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 224 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 214 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Kenyon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenyon is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1914 it was given 1.5 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 Kenyon 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,494 babies since 1880, Kenyon is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 478 babies (6.3%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kenyon
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 Kenyon and names like it
- Compare Kenyon and KeonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKenyon peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kenyon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenyon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.