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Kenton

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Kenton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 70 births. Its best rank was 587th, in 1958.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
700.00% of boys
Peak year
2014188 births
Best rank
#587in 1958
Since 1912
11,187people given the name
Babies named Kenton, by year of birthboys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

11,187 boys have been named Kenton in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 188 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 2010s alone account for 13%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Kenton
1910s121
1920s239
1930s381
1940s681
1950s1,410
1960s1,368
1970s934
1980s1,393
1990s1,412
2000s1,303
2010s1,493
2020s452

In 2014, its biggest year

Kenton was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Kenton

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.