Kenly
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Given to girls 84.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 40 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 541since 1995
Kenly over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #8,110 | 6 |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1995
The first year at least five girls were named Kenly! It came in at #11,783, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kenly is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kenly in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kenly
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 2,513 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,107)
- 2,895 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,107)
- 6,038 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2014 at #3,778 (40 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 44,659
- Highest: 1 in 44,659 girls born in 2014 were named Kenly (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 51.8% of all girls named Kenly (280) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 27 | #8,016 (1998) | #11,984 |
| 2000s | 159 | #5,437 (2005) | #7,638 |
| 2010s | 280 | #3,778 (2014) | #5,470 |
| 2020s | 75 | #7,212 (2020) | #8,364 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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