Meaning not yet researched.
Kenton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #587 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #587 in 1958; #1,758 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,758 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #587.
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Kenton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #587 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 188 (2014).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Kenton, making it the 1,758th most common boys’ name of the year, up 366 places from #2,124 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 70 boys named Kenton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #587, reached in 1958. The most boys given the name in a single year was 188, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,081 in 2015 and #692 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenton in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 11,280 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,493 babies named Kenton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,094 US boys were named Kenton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenton ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #669 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kenten, Kentyn and Kentin 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kenten (39), Kentyn (23), Kentin (17).
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 Kenton 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #669 | #371 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #771 | #898 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,178 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,837 | #1,502 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 92 | #1,758 |
| 2024 | — | — | 70 | #2,124 |
| 2023 | — | — | 75 | #2,021 |
| 2022 | — | — | 96 | #1,741 |
| 2021 | — | — | 96 | #1,704 |
| 2020 | — | — | 115 | #1,483 |
| 2019 | — | — | 126 | #1,403 |
| 2018 | — | — | 128 | #1,378 |
| 2017 | — | — | 137 | #1,320 |
| 2016 | — | — | 159 | #1,196 |
| 2015 | — | — | 182 | #1,081 |
| 2014 | — | — | 188 | #1,056 |
| 2013 | — | — | 163 | #1,116 |
| 2012 | — | — | 163 | #1,126 |
| 2011 | — | — | 136 | #1,270 |
| 2010 | — | — | 111 | #1,478 |
| 2009 | — | — | 152 | #1,187 |
| 2008 | — | — | 136 | #1,280 |
| 2007 | — | — | 125 | #1,345 |
| 2006 | — | — | 139 | #1,210 |
| 2005 | — | — | 122 | #1,275 |
| 2004 | — | — | 131 | #1,187 |
| 2003 | — | — | 133 | #1,138 |
| 2002 | — | — | 109 | #1,248 |
| 2001 | — | — | 114 | #1,195 |
| 2000 | — | — | 142 | #1,031 |
| 1999 | — | — | 132 | #1,048 |
| 1998 | — | — | 142 | #974 |
| 1997 | — | — | 145 | #935 |
| 1996 | — | — | 139 | #939 |
| 1995 | — | — | 156 | #875 |
| 1994 | — | — | 140 | #931 |
| 1993 | — | — | 133 | #934 |
| 1992 | — | — | 134 | #916 |
| 1991 | — | — | 152 | #842 |
| 1990 | — | — | 139 | #869 |
| 1989 | — | — | 150 | #809 |
| 1988 | — | — | 144 | #792 |
| 1987 | — | — | 147 | #754 |
| 1986 | — | — | 148 | #748 |
| 1985 | — | — | 136 | #761 |
| 1984 | — | — | 166 | #675 |
| 1983 | — | — | 146 | #710 |
| 1982 | — | — | 125 | #789 |
| 1981 | — | — | 110 | #840 |
| 1980 | — | — | 121 | #797 |
| 1979 | — | — | 98 | #885 |
| 1978 | — | — | 100 | #863 |
| 1977 | — | — | 93 | #877 |
| 1976 | — | — | 82 | #927 |
| 1975 | — | — | 91 | #871 |
| 1974 | — | — | 88 | #854 |
| 1973 | — | — | 85 | #863 |
| 1972 | — | — | 83 | #885 |
| 1971 | — | — | 116 | #763 |
| 1970 | — | — | 98 | #820 |
| 1969 | — | — | 111 | #744 |
| 1968 | — | — | 122 | #682 |
| 1967 | — | — | 121 | #679 |
| 1966 | — | — | 115 | #692 |
| 1965 | — | — | 129 | #654 |
| 1964 | — | — | 151 | #634 |
| 1963 | — | — | 174 | #597 |
| 1962 | — | — | 153 | #627 |
| 1961 | — | — | 136 | #669 |
| 1960 | — | — | 157 | #622 |
| 1959 | — | — | 157 | #618 |
| 1958 | — | — | 174 | #587 |
| 1957 | — | — | 150 | #625 |
| 1956 | — | — | 151 | #620 |
| 1955 | — | — | 145 | #617 |
| 1954 | — | — | 156 | #591 |
| 1953 | — | — | 124 | #640 |
| 1952 | — | — | 122 | #635 |
| 1951 | — | — | 133 | #612 |
| 1950 | — | — | 98 | #692 |
| 1949 | — | — | 97 | #694 |
| 1948 | — | — | 81 | #755 |
| 1947 | — | — | 91 | #720 |
| 1946 | — | — | 90 | #683 |
| 1945 | — | — | 59 | #814 |
| 1944 | — | — | 67 | #766 |
| 1943 | — | — | 69 | #791 |
| 1942 | — | — | 48 | #963 |
| 1941 | — | — | 44 | #966 |
| 1940 | — | — | 35 | #1,116 |
| 1939 | — | — | 46 | #921 |
| 1938 | — | — | 33 | #1,139 |
| 1937 | — | — | 45 | #938 |
| 1936 | — | — | 42 | #961 |
| 1935 | — | — | 41 | #1,001 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,230 |
| 1933 | — | — | 38 | #1,063 |
| 1932 | — | — | 41 | #1,044 |
| 1931 | — | — | 47 | #968 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,784 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,504 |
| 1928 | — | — | 30 | #1,344 |
| 1927 | — | — | 22 | #1,672 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1925 | — | — | 32 | #1,292 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,602 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,075 |
| 1922 | — | — | 28 | #1,421 |
| 1921 | — | — | 26 | #1,492 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,667 |
| 1919 | — | — | 24 | #1,510 |
| 1918 | — | — | 22 | #1,631 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #2,045 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,097 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,929 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,915 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,745 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,968 |
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).