Kenai
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #710 for boys in 2025, 377 births
Given to boys 97.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 377 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,391since 1992
Kenai over time
Rank among boys' names. Kenai has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #710 | 377 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #772 | 327 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #960 | 235 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,078 | 202 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #1,320 | 141 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,271 | 144 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,432 | 122 |
| 2018 | — | #1,687 | 93 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,623 | 98 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,828 | 82 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | — | #2,205 | 61 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2012 | — | #3,059 | 37 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,105 | 37 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | — | #3,227 | 33 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | — | #2,208 | 52 | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #7,245 | 9 |
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| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kenai! It came in at #8,435, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kenai is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#389 · 1 in 1,548
- Nevada#494 · 1 in 2,373
- Utah#547 · 1 in 2,755
- Colorado#549 · 1 in 2,789
- Tennessee#698 · 1 in 4,259
Best ever in a state: #184 in Alaska, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #389 | 5 | 1 in 1,548 |
| Nevada | #494 | 5 | 1 in 2,373 |
| Utah | #547 | 7 | 1 in 2,755 |
| Colorado | #549 | 9 | 1 in 2,789 |
| Tennessee | #698 | 8 | 1 in 4,259 |
| Washington | #700 | 8 | 1 in 4,146 |
| Arizona | #877 | 5 | 1 in 6,392 |
| Georgia | #1,150 | 6 | 1 in 8,379 |
| Florida | #1,174 | 9 | 1 in 10,024 |
| Texas | #1,285 | 14 | 1 in 12,089 |
| California | #1,443 | 12 | 1 in 15,801 |
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See more about Kenai
- 62 spots since 2024 (#772 → #710)
- 561 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #710)
- 1,358 spots since 2015 (#2,068 → #710)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 2024 (#960 → #772)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2025 at #710 (377 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,531 boys born in 2025 were named Kenai (0.02%)
- 59.6% of all boys named Kenai (1,426) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 10 | #8,435 (1992) | #9,174 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,208 (2004) | #3,771 |
| 2010s | 689 | #1,432 (2019) | #2,234 |
| 2020s | 1,426 | #710 (2025) | #1,019 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenai in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 269,425 of them was named Kenai, which outranked 23.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,142Zura7
- #12,142Zurina7
- #12,142Zurisadai7
- #13,453Kenai6
- #13,453Aadhyasri6
- #13,453Aala6
- #13,453Aaleigha6
- #15,088Aabha5
- #15,088Aafia5
- #15,088Aahlani5
Tied with 1,634 names at #13,453; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,987 of them was named Kenai, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,262Kallen145
- #1,262Khai145
- #1,262Zephyr145
- #1,271Kenai144
- #1,271Aubrey144
- #1,271Ishmael144
- #1,271Jessiah144
- #1,280Adiel143
- #1,280Amar143
- #1,280Caysen143
Tied with 8 names at #1,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.