Kenner
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 1944 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 546since 1932
Kenner over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kenner has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #4,742 | 21 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
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| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
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| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
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| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
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| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
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First appearance
1932
The first year at least five boys were named Kenner! It came in at #3,776, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1932–1943, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kenner is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kenner in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kenner
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,661 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #5,861)
- 820 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #5,861)
- 2,348 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
12 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1932
- Peaked 1944 at #2,633 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 61,830
- Highest: 1 in 61,830 boys born in 2015 were named Kenner (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,633 in 1944, was only 1 in 170,359 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 34.4% of all boys named Kenner (188) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,776 (1932) | #3,776 |
| 1940s | 14 | #2,633 (1944) | #2,966 |
| 1950s | 14 | #2,969 (1956) | #3,211 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 13 | #4,403 (1979) | #5,088 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 40 | #6,992 (1995) | #7,499 |
| 2000s | 136 | #4,375 (2007) | #6,396 |
| 2010s | 188 | #3,513 (2015) | #5,276 |
| 2020s | 131 | #3,995 (2022) | #4,660 |
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.
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