Meaning not yet researched.
Kenzo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 445 in 2025. Its best rank was #505 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #505 in 2022; #630 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenzo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#630 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #505.
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Kenzo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 445 boys in 2025. Peak: #505 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 596 (2022).
In 2025, 445 US boys were named Kenzo, making it the 630th most common boys’ name of the year, down 44 places from #586 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 487 boys named Kenzo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #505, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 596. For comparison, it was #1,747 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenzo in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 7 babies. In all, 4,695 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,055 babies named Kenzo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,901 US boys were named Kenzo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 596. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,838 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenzo ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #194 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kenso and Kynzo 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: Kenso (15), Kynzo (6).
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 Kenzo 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #194 | — |
| Nevada | 10 | #315 | — |
| Maryland | 16 | #338 | #847 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #367 | — |
| California | 82 | #403 | #979 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #405 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #462 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #467 | — |
| New York | 34 | #486 | #983 |
| Michigan | 16 | #528 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #550 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #551 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #552 | — |
| Virginia | 13 | #574 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #632 | — |
| Ohio | 15 | #639 | — |
| Georgia | 16 | #643 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #658 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #737 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #757 | — |
| Texas | 36 | #766 | #2,264 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #881 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #890 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,025 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,089 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 445 | #630 |
| 2024 | — | — | 487 | #586 |
| 2023 | — | — | 452 | #621 |
| 2022 | — | — | 596 | #505 |
| 2021 | — | — | 556 | #530 |
| 2020 | — | — | 519 | #548 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,815 | 335 | #727 |
| 2018 | — | — | 249 | #878 |
| 2017 | — | — | 159 | #1,179 |
| 2016 | — | — | 103 | #1,593 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,747 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,740 |
| 2013 | — | — | 91 | #1,666 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,722 |
| 2011 | — | — | 101 | #1,562 |
| 2010 | — | — | 98 | #1,605 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,519 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,093 |
| 2007 | — | — | 26 | #3,962 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,198 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,738 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,565 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,009 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,275 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,725 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,134 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,322 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,052 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,747 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,826 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,635 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,299 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,788 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,927 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,688 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,040 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,657 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,661 |
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).