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Kenny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #169 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #169 in 1960; #1,271 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kenny in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,271 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #169.
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Kenny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 boys in 2025. Peak: #169 in 1960 · most boys in one year: 1,934 (1960).
In 2025, 155 US boys were named Kenny, making it the 1,271st most common boys’ name of the year, up 86 places from #1,357 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 140 boys named Kenny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #169, reached in 1960. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,934. For comparison, it was #893 in 2015 and #299 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenny in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 52,479 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 12,464 babies named Kenny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,880 US boys were named Kenny; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,020 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenny ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #489 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenney (2,505 babies since 1880), Kenya (27,553 babies since 1880), Kenia (10,228 babies since 1880) and Keoni (3,576 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kennie, Kennia and Keniya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ken and Kenneth.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kennie (1,635), Kennia (796), Keniya (690), Kennya (636), Keani (580), Kinney (354), Kenni (349), Keni (347), Keenya (280), Keny (228), Kenniya (174), Kiany (76), 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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 10 | #489 | #486 |
| New York | 16 | #869 | #598 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #874 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #893 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #938 | #557 |
| California | 20 | #1,061 | #694 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,073 | #1,145 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,151 | #770 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,214 | #868 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,076 | 155 | #1,271 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,422 | 140 | #1,357 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,759 | 162 | #1,223 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,926 | 160 | #1,234 |
| 2021 | — | — | 158 | #1,221 |
| 2020 | — | — | 182 | #1,089 |
| 2019 | — | — | 257 | #863 |
| 2018 | — | — | 207 | #1,001 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,192 | 217 | #959 |
| 2016 | — | — | 242 | #898 |
| 2015 | — | — | 247 | #893 |
| 2014 | — | — | 265 | #846 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,973 | 283 | #795 |
| 2012 | — | — | 310 | #746 |
| 2011 | — | — | 328 | #701 |
| 2010 | — | — | 385 | #631 |
| 2009 | — | — | 404 | #618 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,223 | 493 | #537 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,095 | 522 | #507 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,000 | 521 | #497 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,385 | 555 | #462 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,304 | 520 | #481 |
| 2003 | — | — | 527 | #477 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,166 | 550 | #448 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,568 | 511 | #465 |
| 2000 | — | — | 566 | #431 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,878 | 513 | #447 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,770 | 458 | #478 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,422 | 555 | #417 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,495 | 569 | #408 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,043 | 574 | #399 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,883 | 602 | #387 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,785 | 570 | #406 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,406 | 505 | #437 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,258 | 452 | #465 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,782 | 516 | #431 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,248 | 556 | #394 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,778 | 506 | #392 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,355 | 539 | #362 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,841 | 541 | #349 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,927 | 573 | #335 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,224 | 528 | #350 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,583 | 548 | #337 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,166 | 598 | #319 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,061 | 633 | #303 |
| 1980 | — | — | 574 | #330 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,999 | 493 | #358 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,047 | 431 | #372 |
| 1977 | — | — | 402 | #393 |
| 1976 | — | — | 417 | #376 |
| 1975 | — | — | 354 | #410 |
| 1974 | — | — | 448 | #365 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,038 | 470 | #356 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,706 | 501 | #344 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,289 | 605 | #311 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,484 | 668 | #302 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,690 | 676 | #289 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,904 | 751 | #265 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,163 | 820 | #246 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,322 | 928 | #232 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,045 | 1,103 | #217 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,489 | 1,403 | #200 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,695 | 1,453 | #203 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,133 | 1,594 | #189 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,885 | 1,701 | #179 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,277 | 1,934 | #169 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,922 | 1,763 | #174 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,826 | 1,422 | #197 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,711 | 1,073 | #231 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,649 | 803 | #255 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,281 | 689 | #272 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,447 | 571 | #301 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,359 | 512 | #317 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,300 | 555 | #301 |
| 1951 | — | — | 487 | #317 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,693 | 514 | #299 |
| 1949 | — | — | 544 | #291 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,628 | 617 | #265 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,579 | 692 | #251 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,332 | 609 | #254 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,840 | 520 | #253 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,911 | 467 | #276 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,780 | 434 | #295 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,583 | 400 | #307 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,780 | 345 | #313 |
| 1940 | — | — | 317 | #316 |
| 1939 | — | — | 285 | #326 |
| 1938 | — | — | 223 | #378 |
| 1937 | — | — | 199 | #391 |
| 1936 | — | — | 133 | #491 |
| 1935 | — | — | 122 | #524 |
| 1934 | — | — | 84 | #661 |
| 1933 | — | — | 73 | #707 |
| 1932 | — | — | 64 | #797 |
| 1931 | — | — | 70 | #736 |
| 1930 | — | — | 57 | #880 |
| 1929 | — | — | 48 | #978 |
| 1928 | — | — | 39 | #1,138 |
| 1927 | — | — | 39 | #1,154 |
| 1926 | — | — | 24 | #1,541 |
| 1925 | — | — | 21 | #1,715 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,479 | 32 | #1,313 |
| 1923 | — | — | 25 | #1,527 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,417 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,317 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,660 |
| 1919 | — | — | 17 | #1,929 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,467 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,138 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,644 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,730 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,794 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,384 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,818 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,586 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,302 |
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).