Kenyon
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #13,924 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 323 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,977since 1914
Kenyon over time
Rank among boys' names. Kenyon has never cracked the top 600 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,693 | 30 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,675 | 49 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,235 | 61 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,525 | 52 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,230 | 61 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,003 | 71 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,387 | 54 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,677 | 93 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,432 | 116 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,387 | 121 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,280 | 137 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,023 | 187 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,086 | 177 | |
| 2009 | — | #926 | 223 | |
| 2008 | — | #851 | 251 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #796 | 271 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #701 | 314 |
| 2005 | — | #662 | 323 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #860 | 206 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #713 | 261 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #707 | 253 |
| 2001 | — | #1,000 | 152 | |
| 2000 | — | #770 | 216 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #981 | 145 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #981 | 140 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #972 | 135 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #1,060 | 115 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,016 | 119 |
| 1994 | — | #997 | 124 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,042 | 112 |
| 1992 | — | #1,162 | 90 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,282 | 76 | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,201 | 82 |
| 1989 | — | #1,308 | 70 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,525 | 48 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,295 | 57 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,199 | 63 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,158 | 65 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #968 | 84 |
| 1983 | — | #1,000 | 78 | |
| 1982 | — | #995 | 82 | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #920 | 95 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #910 | 96 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #780 | 123 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #715 | 138 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #692 | 150 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #689 | 145 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #692 | 143 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | #698 | 138 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #804 | 96 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #797 | 100 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | #933 | 76 |
| 1970 | — | #968 | 69 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #1,221 | 42 |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,274 | 35 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,650 | 22 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,360 | 32 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,311 | 36 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,354 | 33 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,423 | 30 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,686 | 23 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,139 | 47 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,759 | 21 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,557 | 25 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,715 | 22 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,385 | 31 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,419 | 29 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,292 | 34 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,630 | 22 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,547 | 24 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,838 | 17 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,746 | 18 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,022 | 14 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,430 | 26 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,916 | 16 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,642 | 19 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,683 | 17 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,910 | 15 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,083 | 12 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,736 | 16 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,818 | 15 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,088 | 12 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,837 | 15 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,022 | 13 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,230 | 29 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,651 | 19 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,489 | 22 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,693 | 19 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,317 | 12 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,960 | 16 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,186 | 14 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,745 | 20 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,765 | 20 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,904 | 18 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,131 | 15 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,973 | 16 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,767 | 19 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,280 | 12 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,730 | 9 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,782 | 16 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kenyon! It came in at #2,457, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Kenyon is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#309 · 1 in 2,307
- Alabama#343 · 1 in 3,225
- Louisiana#352 · 1 in 2,360
- Georgia#437 · 1 in 4,196
- Tennessee#468 · 1 in 6,387
Best ever in a state: #255 in Maryland, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #309 | 8 | 1 in 2,307 |
| Alabama | #343 | 8 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Louisiana | #352 | 14 | 1 in 2,360 |
| Georgia | #437 | 9 | 1 in 4,196 |
| Tennessee | #468 | 5 | 1 in 6,387 |
| Florida | #514 | 9 | 1 in 5,668 |
| North Carolina | #542 | 5 | 1 in 7,434 |
| New Jersey | #569 | 5 | 1 in 8,277 |
| Illinois | #576 | 10 | 1 in 7,939 |
| Michigan | #587 | 6 | 1 in 10,708 |
| Ohio | #615 | 6 | 1 in 12,845 |
| California | #900 | 10 | 1 in 16,893 |
| Texas | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 19,186 |
| New York | #1,111 | 5 | 1 in 22,052 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kenyon
- 35 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #3,658)
- 1,423 spots since 2020 (#2,235 → #3,658)
- 1,981 spots since 2015 (#1,677 → #3,658)
- Biggest jump: 293 spots in 2002 (#1,000 → #707)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 2001 (#770 → #1,000)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2005 at #662 (323 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1970–1984
- Highest: 1 in 6,184 boys born in 2005 were named Kenyon (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all boys named Kenyon (2,470) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 80 | #1,767 (1918) | #2,165 |
| 1920s | 147 | #1,745 (1925) | #2,201 |
| 1930s | 164 | #1,230 (1933) | #1,842 |
| 1940s | 166 | #1,430 (1948) | #1,806 |
| 1950s | 243 | #1,292 (1954) | #1,589 |
| 1960s | 335 | #1,139 (1960) | #1,370 |
| 1970s | 1,178 | #689 (1976) | #777 |
| 1980s | 738 | #910 (1980) | #1,128 |
| 1990s | 1,138 | #972 (1997) | #1,069 |
| 2000s | 2,470 | #662 (2005) | #799 |
| 2010s | 1,069 | #1,023 (2011) | #1,703 |
| 2020s | 249 | #2,235 (2020) | #3,078 |
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.
Kenyon in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 306,372 of them was named Kenyon, which outranked 15.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,725 names at #9,750; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 11,897 of them was named Kenyon, which outranked 89.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).