Meaning not yet researched.
Kenai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 377 in 2025. Its best rank was #713 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Kenai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#713 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kenai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 377 boys in 2025. Peak: #713 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 377 (2025).
In 2025, 377 US boys were named Kenai, making it the 713th most common boys’ name of the year, up 61 places from #774 in 2024. That is 50 more than the 327 boys named Kenai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #713, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 377. For comparison, it was #2,079 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenai in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 2,465 US babies have been given the name, 3.0% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,458 babies named Kenai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,821 US boys were named Kenai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 377. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,531 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenai ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #260 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenna (13,781 babies since 1880), Keona (3,365 babies since 1880), Keana (2,738 babies since 1880) and Keena (2,336 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kenaii are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kenaii (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kenai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #260 | — |
| Colorado | 19 | #338 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #426 | — |
| Arizona | 17 | #438 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #456 | — |
| Washington | 16 | #461 | #1,027 |
| Idaho | 5 | #461 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #466 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #478 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #481 | — |
| Florida | 34 | #523 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #530 | #757 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #535 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #592 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #651 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #664 | — |
| Texas | 38 | #725 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #764 | — |
| California | 34 | #767 | #1,703 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #814 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #873 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #888 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #905 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #989 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,053 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,072 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,087 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,170 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,074 | 377 | #713 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,493 | 327 | #774 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,406 | 235 | #960 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,533 | 202 | #1,082 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,498 | 141 | #1,322 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,298 | 144 | #1,274 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,799 | 122 | #1,437 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,693 |
| 2017 | — | — | 98 | #1,627 |
| 2016 | — | — | 82 | #1,837 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,474 | 68 | #2,079 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,220 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,963 | 52 | #2,414 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,084 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,817 | 35 | #3,211 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,896 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,141 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,982 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,707 | 42 | #2,845 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,277 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,481 | 42 | #2,638 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,225 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,144 | 9 | #7,564 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,246 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,816 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,158 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).