Meaning not yet researched.
Kenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 357 in 2025. Its best rank was #661 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #661 in 2016; #759 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kenna in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#759 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #661.
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Kenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 357 girls in 2025. Peak: #661 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 444 (2016).
In 2025, 357 US girls were named Kenna, making it the 759th most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #726 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 389 girls named Kenna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #661, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 444. For comparison, it was #677 in 2015 and #1,697 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenna in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 13,781 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,705 babies named Kenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,085 US girls were named Kenna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 444. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,502 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenna ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #253 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kiana (26,713 babies since 1880), Kianna (8,747 babies since 1880), Keyana (3,842 babies since 1880) and Keanna (3,638 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keionna, Kyonna and Kennah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Keionna (659), Kyonna (463), Kennah (410), Keyunna (174), Kenay (172), Keyuna (168), Kenaya (81), Keeanna (69), Keaunna (67), Kenae (62), Kieonna (41), Keeona (27), and more.
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 Kenna in the open dataset we use.
Kenna is listed as a nickname for Mckenna.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 14 | #253 | #494 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #465 | #501 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #498 | #654 |
| Ohio | 21 | #509 | #585 |
| Washington | 13 | #529 | #398 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #540 | #563 |
| Colorado | 10 | #564 | #557 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #629 | #579 |
| Kansas | 5 | #630 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #658 | #649 |
| Utah | 6 | #659 | #481 |
| Alabama | 7 | #679 | #656 |
| Missouri | 8 | #688 | #542 |
| Illinois | 14 | #693 | #786 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #749 | #1,499 |
| Indiana | 8 | #763 | #600 |
| Virginia | 9 | #806 | #705 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #806 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #868 | #624 |
| Florida | 18 | #898 | #619 |
| Michigan | 8 | #910 | #694 |
| Maryland | 5 | #918 | #842 |
| Georgia | 10 | #952 | #757 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,018 | #863 |
| California | 25 | #1,070 | #897 |
| New York | 13 | #1,121 | #2,111 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,222 | #455 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 357 | #759 | 5 | #13,015 |
| 2024 | 389 | #726 | — | — |
| 2023 | 377 | #747 | 6 | #11,580 |
| 2022 | 430 | #679 | 7 | #10,356 |
| 2021 | 406 | #709 | 8 | #9,282 |
| 2020 | 416 | #684 | 9 | #8,417 |
| 2019 | 436 | #664 | — | — |
| 2018 | 426 | #686 | 8 | #9,254 |
| 2017 | 404 | #712 | — | — |
| 2016 | 444 | #661 | 11 | #7,394 |
| 2015 | 422 | #677 | 7 | #10,130 |
| 2014 | 329 | #842 | — | — |
| 2013 | 253 | #992 | 6 | #11,496 |
| 2012 | 299 | #886 | 10 | #7,861 |
| 2011 | 316 | #836 | 7 | #10,243 |
| 2010 | 318 | #845 | 9 | #8,476 |
| 2009 | 378 | #751 | — | — |
| 2008 | 335 | #843 | — | — |
| 2007 | 343 | #836 | 5 | #13,461 |
| 2006 | 289 | #916 | — | — |
| 2005 | 293 | #864 | — | — |
| 2004 | 320 | #795 | — | — |
| 2003 | 301 | #821 | — | — |
| 2002 | 286 | #810 | — | — |
| 2001 | 239 | #931 | — | — |
| 2000 | 215 | #990 | — | — |
| 1999 | 205 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1998 | 187 | #1,053 | 5 | #10,504 |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1996 | 156 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1995 | 140 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1994 | 129 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,579 | 9 | #5,902 |
| 1991 | 107 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,355 | 10 | #4,212 |
| 1984 | 85 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,621 | 6 | #5,894 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,800 | 5 | #6,565 |
| 1978 | 64 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1977 | 85 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1972 | 79 | #1,298 | 8 | #3,805 |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,588 | 5 | #4,268 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1965 | 68 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1964 | 88 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,359 | 7 | #3,500 |
| 1959 | 62 | #1,365 | 7 | #3,436 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,312 | 5 | #4,278 |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,263 | 11 | #2,566 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,429 | 5 | #4,107 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,372 | 6 | #3,553 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,494 | 6 | #3,518 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,612 | 5 | #3,946 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,475 | 8 | #2,749 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,494 | 9 | #2,582 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,636 | 7 | #3,147 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,121 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,584 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,478 | 5 | #4,687 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,083 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,234 |
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).