Kenzo
Kenzo was given to 445 boys in 2025, #630 among boys’ names; 4,695 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,630 Americans named Kenzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kenzo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kenzo is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese けんぞう (Kenzō).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kenzo?
#630 among boys’ names, 2025
Kenzo rose from #1,747 in 2015 to #630 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.26 per 1,000.
596 babies in 2022, the peak
Kenzo peaked in 2022, when 596 boys were given it, #505 among boys’ names. The 445 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 445 | #630 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 487 | #586 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 452 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 596 | #505 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 556 | #530 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 519 | #548 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 335 | #727 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 249 | #878 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 159 | #1,179 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #1,747 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,740 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,665 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,721 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,562 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,605 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,517 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,194 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,733 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,559 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,002 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,268 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,718 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,315 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,925 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,037 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenzo has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kenzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenzo, and how old are they?
4,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,695 Americans ever recorded as Kenzo. The median Kenzo alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,594 people named Kenzo (17 women and girls, 1,577 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,731 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,140 |
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 Kenzo born?
The states with the most babies named Kenzo are California, Texas and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 82 | #403 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 36 | #766 | 0.6× |
| New York | 34 | #486 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 32 | #550 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #552 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 16 | #338 | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 16 | #643 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 16 | #528 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 15 | #639 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #367 | 0.9× |
Where Kenzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenzo is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1920 it was given 2.3 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 Kenzo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenzo
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 Kenzo and names like it
- Compare Kenzo and KreedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKenzo peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenzo since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kenzo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kenzo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kenzo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.