Meaning not yet researched.
Kennith: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #423 in 1940.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #423 in 1940; #11,374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kennith in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,374 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1940, at #423.
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Kennith: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #423 in 1940 · most boys in one year: 234 (1956).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kennith, making it the 11,374th most common boys’ name of the year, down 943 places from #10,431 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 boys named Kennith in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #423, reached in 1940. The most boys given the name in a single year was 234, in 1956. For comparison, it was #13,106 in 2015 and #493 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kennith in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 10,565 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,064 babies named Kennith.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US boys were named Kennith; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenneth (1,289,312 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kennith in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,374 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,431 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,375 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,449 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,514 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,113 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,612 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,847 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,669 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,504 |
| 2015 | — | — | 5 | #13,106 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,978 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,082 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,843 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,478 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,769 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,512 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,847 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,643 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,931 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,119 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,079 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,310 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,595 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,408 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,186 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,425 |
| 1997 | — | — | 60 | #1,661 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,755 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,122 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,682 |
| 1993 | — | — | 56 | #1,609 |
| 1992 | — | — | 66 | #1,407 |
| 1991 | — | — | 63 | #1,439 |
| 1990 | — | — | 61 | #1,444 |
| 1989 | — | — | 88 | #1,136 |
| 1988 | — | — | 75 | #1,168 |
| 1987 | — | — | 79 | #1,084 |
| 1986 | — | — | 59 | #1,263 |
| 1985 | — | — | 90 | #964 |
| 1984 | — | — | 71 | #1,063 |
| 1983 | — | — | 55 | #1,246 |
| 1982 | — | — | 84 | #983 |
| 1981 | — | — | 81 | #1,012 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,263 |
| 1979 | — | — | 88 | #940 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,161 |
| 1977 | — | — | 78 | #972 |
| 1976 | — | — | 77 | #954 |
| 1975 | — | — | 96 | #852 |
| 1974 | — | — | 100 | #804 |
| 1973 | — | — | 80 | #895 |
| 1972 | — | — | 108 | #768 |
| 1971 | — | — | 135 | #712 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,626 | 138 | #708 |
| 1969 | — | — | 155 | #638 |
| 1968 | — | — | 145 | #629 |
| 1967 | — | — | 146 | #622 |
| 1966 | — | — | 156 | #599 |
| 1965 | — | — | 175 | #577 |
| 1964 | — | — | 211 | #542 |
| 1963 | — | — | 186 | #583 |
| 1962 | — | — | 219 | #537 |
| 1961 | — | — | 211 | #545 |
| 1960 | — | — | 197 | #560 |
| 1959 | — | — | 223 | #528 |
| 1958 | — | — | 201 | #544 |
| 1957 | — | — | 219 | #520 |
| 1956 | — | — | 234 | #495 |
| 1955 | — | — | 206 | #512 |
| 1954 | — | — | 191 | #529 |
| 1953 | — | — | 190 | #512 |
| 1952 | — | — | 210 | #486 |
| 1951 | — | — | 204 | #474 |
| 1950 | — | — | 186 | #493 |
| 1949 | — | — | 199 | #466 |
| 1948 | — | — | 215 | #455 |
| 1947 | — | — | 194 | #480 |
| 1946 | — | — | 175 | #484 |
| 1945 | — | — | 158 | #477 |
| 1944 | — | — | 149 | #498 |
| 1943 | — | — | 142 | #532 |
| 1942 | — | — | 178 | #467 |
| 1941 | — | — | 141 | #492 |
| 1940 | — | — | 192 | #423 |
| 1939 | — | — | 155 | #464 |
| 1938 | — | — | 151 | #473 |
| 1937 | — | — | 171 | #434 |
| 1936 | — | — | 126 | #508 |
| 1935 | — | — | 133 | #496 |
| 1934 | — | — | 122 | #532 |
| 1933 | — | — | 133 | #487 |
| 1932 | — | — | 108 | #573 |
| 1931 | — | — | 107 | #571 |
| 1930 | — | — | 98 | #623 |
| 1929 | — | — | 80 | #692 |
| 1928 | — | — | 88 | #674 |
| 1927 | — | — | 73 | #771 |
| 1926 | — | — | 66 | #817 |
| 1925 | — | — | 75 | #762 |
| 1924 | — | — | 67 | #829 |
| 1923 | — | — | 57 | #907 |
| 1922 | — | — | 49 | #1,015 |
| 1921 | — | — | 59 | #915 |
| 1920 | — | — | 55 | #934 |
| 1919 | — | — | 36 | #1,179 |
| 1918 | — | — | 32 | #1,245 |
| 1917 | — | — | 27 | #1,351 |
| 1916 | — | — | 30 | #1,229 |
| 1915 | — | — | 25 | #1,357 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,043 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,545 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,688 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,646 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,268 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,308 |
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).