Meaning not yet researched.
Kenan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 184 in 2025. Its best rank was #970 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #970 in 1997; #1,148 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,148 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #970.
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Kenan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 184 boys in 2025. Peak: #970 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 187 (2024).
In 2025, 184 US boys were named Kenan, making it the 1,148th most common boys’ name of the year, down 14 places from #1,134 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 187 boys named Kenan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #970, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 187, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenan in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 4,675 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,109 babies named Kenan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,456 US boys were named Kenan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,283 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenan ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #536 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Keenan (18,515 babies since 1880), Conan (2,438 babies since 1880), Kenyon (8,164 babies since 1880) and Keenen (1,181 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kinaan 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: Kinaan (6).
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 Kenan 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #536 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #665 | #1,071 |
| Michigan | 11 | #697 | #1,166 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #736 | — |
| New York | 19 | #758 | #1,550 |
| Washington | 8 | #769 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #903 | #1,443 |
| Missouri | 5 | #933 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #933 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #983 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,060 | #1,418 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,111 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,383 | #2,026 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,976 | #1,234 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 184 | #1,148 |
| 2024 | — | — | 187 | #1,134 |
| 2023 | — | — | 143 | #1,332 |
| 2022 | — | — | 168 | #1,194 |
| 2021 | — | — | 132 | #1,389 |
| 2020 | — | — | 135 | #1,330 |
| 2019 | — | — | 168 | #1,161 |
| 2018 | — | — | 135 | #1,337 |
| 2017 | — | — | 98 | #1,628 |
| 2016 | — | — | 106 | #1,559 |
| 2015 | — | — | 94 | #1,673 |
| 2014 | — | — | 110 | #1,480 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,926 |
| 2012 | — | — | 103 | #1,549 |
| 2011 | — | — | 129 | #1,324 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,464 | 88 | #1,731 |
| 2009 | — | — | 99 | #1,611 |
| 2008 | — | — | 121 | #1,405 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,548 | 104 | #1,521 |
| 2006 | — | — | 104 | #1,472 |
| 2005 | — | — | 107 | #1,395 |
| 2004 | — | — | 94 | #1,463 |
| 2003 | — | — | 98 | #1,378 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,812 | 114 | #1,213 |
| 2001 | — | — | 98 | #1,332 |
| 2000 | — | — | 106 | #1,249 |
| 1999 | — | — | 115 | #1,145 |
| 1998 | — | — | 103 | #1,199 |
| 1997 | — | — | 136 | #970 |
| 1996 | — | — | 79 | #1,364 |
| 1995 | — | — | 82 | #1,302 |
| 1994 | — | — | 56 | #1,635 |
| 1993 | — | — | 51 | #1,712 |
| 1992 | — | — | 70 | #1,356 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,961 | 37 | #2,035 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,885 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,575 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,895 |
| 1987 | — | — | 36 | #1,816 |
| 1986 | — | — | 40 | #1,629 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,503 | 34 | #1,776 |
| 1984 | — | — | 38 | #1,591 |
| 1983 | — | — | 33 | #1,732 |
| 1982 | — | — | 36 | #1,666 |
| 1981 | — | — | 35 | #1,681 |
| 1980 | — | — | 38 | #1,580 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,517 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,421 |
| 1977 | — | — | 44 | #1,385 |
| 1976 | — | — | 31 | #1,694 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,730 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,729 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,561 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,804 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,528 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,800 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,621 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,439 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,410 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,180 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,837 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,488 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,479 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,449 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,291 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,931 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,436 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,674 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,307 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,977 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,011 |
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).