Kenji

Where Kenji comes from

Borrowed from Japanese けんじ (Kenji).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kenji
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    Kenji Mizoguchi born
    Japanese film director and screenwriter
  2. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1941
    Kenji Tochio born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1978
    Peak, #749
    128 babies named Kenji — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,520.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Kenji Mizoguchi · Japanese film director and screenwriter, 1898–1956
  • Kenji Tochio · Japanese association football player, born 1941
  • Kenji Honnami · Japanese association football player, born 1964
  • Kenji Miyazawa · Japanese poet and author of children's literature, 1896–1933
  • Kenji Fukuda · Japanese association football player, born 1977

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.