Keenen

Where Keenen comes from

Keenen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1958
    Keenen Ivory Wayans born
    American actor, comedian, filmmaker
  2. 1976
    First appearance
    #5,587 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1991
    Peak, #907
    134 babies named Keenen — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,753.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans · American actor, comedian, filmmaker, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.