Kenna

Where Kenna comes from

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from McKenna. * As a Manx and Irish surname, from Ó Cionaodha /Ó Cionaoith (“descendant of Cionaodh”), a name usually Anglicized as Kenneth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kenna
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Kenna through the years
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #5,061 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1963
    Kenna James born
    American poker player
  4. 1995
    Kenna James born
    American pornographic actress
  5. 2016
    Peak, #658
    444 babies named Kenna, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, masculine equivalent Kenneth.
Namesakes
  • Kenna James · American pornographic actress, born 1995
  • Kenna James · American poker player, born 1963
  • Kenna Campbell · Scottish singer, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.