Meaning not yet researched.
Kenyon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #663 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #663 in 2005; #3,707 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenyon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,707 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #663.
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Kenyon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #663 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 323 (2005).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Kenyon, making it the 3,707th most common boys’ name of the year, up 38 places from #3,745 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 30 boys named Kenyon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #663, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 323. For comparison, it was #1,688 in 2015 and #1,783 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenyon in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 8 babies. In all, 8,164 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,502 babies named Kenyon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 487 US boys were named Kenyon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenan (4,675 babies since 1880) and Kenyan (968 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kenyen, Kenyun and Kinnon 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: Kenyen (239), Kenyun (45), Kinnon (18), Kenyin (17), Kinyon (15), Keneen (10).
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 Kenyon 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 | — | — | 30 | #3,707 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,745 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,514 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,696 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,756 |
| 2020 | — | — | 61 | #2,251 |
| 2019 | — | — | 52 | #2,537 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,249 |
| 2017 | — | — | 71 | #2,008 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,399 |
| 2015 | — | — | 93 | #1,688 |
| 2014 | — | — | 116 | #1,434 |
| 2013 | — | — | 121 | #1,394 |
| 2012 | — | — | 137 | #1,283 |
| 2011 | — | — | 187 | #1,023 |
| 2010 | — | — | 177 | #1,091 |
| 2009 | — | — | 223 | #927 |
| 2008 | — | — | 251 | #852 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,714 | 271 | #796 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,644 | 314 | #701 |
| 2005 | — | — | 323 | #663 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,138 | 206 | #860 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,091 | 261 | #713 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,674 | 253 | #709 |
| 2001 | — | — | 152 | #1,003 |
| 2000 | — | — | 216 | #772 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,019 | 145 | #984 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,347 | 140 | #983 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,450 | 135 | #973 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,634 | 115 | #1,062 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,568 | 119 | #1,019 |
| 1994 | — | — | 124 | #999 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,601 | 112 | #1,044 |
| 1992 | — | — | 90 | #1,174 |
| 1991 | — | — | 76 | #1,288 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,786 | 82 | #1,213 |
| 1989 | — | — | 70 | #1,315 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,536 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,306 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,209 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,772 | 65 | #1,161 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,717 | 84 | #973 |
| 1983 | — | — | 78 | #1,004 |
| 1982 | — | — | 82 | #1,002 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,681 | 95 | #927 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,100 | 96 | #910 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,935 | 123 | #781 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,506 | 138 | #716 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,931 | 150 | #693 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,301 | 145 | #691 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,740 | 143 | #696 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,584 | 138 | #699 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,347 | 96 | #805 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,708 | 100 | #799 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,751 | 76 | #936 |
| 1970 | — | — | 69 | #972 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,008 | 42 | #1,227 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,299 |
| 1967 | — | — | 35 | #1,280 |
| 1966 | — | — | 22 | #1,671 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,367 |
| 1964 | — | — | 36 | #1,321 |
| 1963 | — | — | 33 | #1,366 |
| 1962 | — | — | 30 | #1,445 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,718 |
| 1960 | — | — | 47 | #1,145 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,783 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,572 |
| 1957 | — | — | 22 | #1,734 |
| 1956 | — | — | 31 | #1,405 |
| 1955 | — | — | 29 | #1,437 |
| 1954 | — | — | 34 | #1,301 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,655 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,570 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,876 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,783 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,072 |
| 1948 | — | — | 26 | #1,445 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,956 |
| 1946 | — | — | 19 | #1,673 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,070 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,709 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,951 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,655 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,146 |
| 1940 | — | — | 16 | #1,768 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,364 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,861 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,146 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,376 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,877 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,079 |
| 1933 | — | — | 29 | #1,241 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,688 |
| 1931 | — | — | 22 | #1,516 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,732 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,395 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #2,008 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,033 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,256 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,776 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,747 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,531 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,795 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,946 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,183 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,022 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,797 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,357 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,831 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,839 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,545 |
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).