Kenyon
Kenyon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 663rd, in 2005.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2005323 births
- Best rank
- #663in 2005
- Since 1914
- 8,133people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,946 boys have been named Kenyon in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 323 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 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 187 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kenyon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 80 | |
| 1920s | 147 | |
| 1930s | 164 | |
| 1940s | 166 | |
| 1950s | 243 | |
| 1960s | 335 | |
| 1970s | 1,178 | |
| 1980s | 738 | |
| 1990s | 1,138 | |
| 2000s | 2,470 | |
| 2010s | 1,068 | |
| 2020s | 219 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Kenyon was the 663rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Kenyon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Juaquinpeak 2006
- Davinpeak 2007
- Tyepeak 2006
- Dathanpeak 2005
- Gabrialpeak 2007
- Shamuspeak 2007
- Javanpeak 2004
- Taitpeak 2007
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.