Kinnick
Kinnick was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,612 among boys’ names; 511 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinnick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinnick?
#8,612 among boys’ names, 2025
Kinnick fell from #3,332 in 2015 to #8,612 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 5.3 per million.
49 babies in 2011, the peak
Kinnick peaked in 2011, when 49 boys were given it, #2,528 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,612 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,292 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,521 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,672 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,349 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,567 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,214 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,725 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,139 | 19.5 |
| 2015 | 34 | #3,332 | 17.7 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 36 | #3,132 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,254 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,208 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,528 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,940 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,689 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,475 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,848 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,434 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,423 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,577 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinnick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinnick has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 21 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kinnick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinnick, and how old are they?
An estimated 506 Americans named Kinnick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Kinnick (28 women and girls, 422 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 Kinnick born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 366 | not ranked | 67.2× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Kinnick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kinnick is most over-represented in Iowa: since 2004 it was given 67.2 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 Kinnick 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 Kinnick
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 Kinnick and names like it
- Compare Kinnick and JayseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKinnick peaked in 2011.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinnick since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kinnick.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kinnick alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.