Kenna
#759 for girls in 2025, 357 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 98.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 444 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,536since 1924
Kenna over time
Rank among girls' names. Kenna has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #759 | 357 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #725 | 389 | — | |
| 2023 | #745 | 377 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #678 | 430 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #709 | 406 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #682 | 416 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #664 | 436 | — | |
| 2018 | #686 | 426 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #712 | 404 | — | |
| 2016 | #658 | 444 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #677 | 422 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #840 | 329 | — | |
| 2013 | #988 | 253 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #885 | 299 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #835 | 316 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #844 | 318 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #751 | 378 | — | |
| 2008 | #842 | 335 | — | |
| 2007 | #834 | 343 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #913 | 289 | — | |
| 2005 | #863 | 293 | — | |
| 2004 | #795 | 320 | — | |
| 2003 | #821 | 301 | — | |
| 2002 | #808 | 286 | — | |
| 2001 | #928 | 239 | — | |
| 2000 | #985 | 215 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,000 | 205 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,050 | 187 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,096 | 171 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,164 | 156 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,225 | 140 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,312 | 129 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,507 | 104 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,575 | 98 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,478 | 107 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,410 | 112 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,444 | 102 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,354 | 105 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,515 | 81 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,350 | 97 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #1,381 | 85 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,665 | 66 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,489 | 80 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,615 | 72 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #1,653 | 64 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,341 | 85 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,568 | 64 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,430 | 73 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,399 | 73 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,312 | 77 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,289 | 79 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #1,322 | 81 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,330 | 79 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,355 | 71 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,365 | 67 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,581 | 51 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #1,430 | 59 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,323 | 68 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,172 | 88 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,241 | 78 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,359 | 66 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,343 | 69 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,354 | 66 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #1,358 | 62 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #1,379 | 59 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,301 | 66 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #1,260 | 68 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #1,347 | 56 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,422 | 50 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #1,491 | 43 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,540 | 39 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,362 | 47 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #1,679 | 31 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,489 | 38 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #1,598 | 34 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,660 | 25 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,455 | 31 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #1,703 | 25 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,117 | 17 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | #2,592 | 11 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
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| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Kenna! It came in at #5,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1929, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kenna
- 34 spots since 2024 (#725 → #759)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#682 → #759)
- 82 spots since 2015 (#677 → #759)
- Biggest jump: 163 spots in 2015 (#840 → #677)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 2013 (#885 → #988)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2016 at #658 (444 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,814 girls born in 2022 were named Kenna (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,502 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #658 in 2016, was only 1 in 3,991 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.9% of all girls named Kenna (3,647) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,570 (1929) | #4,816 |
| 1930s | 63 | #2,579 (1938) | #3,301 |
| 1940s | 253 | #1,455 (1944) | #1,804 |
| 1950s | 521 | #1,260 (1956) | #1,414 |
| 1960s | 683 | #1,172 (1964) | #1,352 |
| 1970s | 735 | #1,289 (1972) | #1,444 |
| 1980s | 841 | #1,350 (1985) | #1,497 |
| 1990s | 1,409 | #1,000 (1999) | #1,282 |
| 2000s | 2,999 | #751 (2009) | #854 |
| 2010s | 3,647 | #658 (2016) | #779 |
| 2020s | 2,375 | #678 (2022) | #716 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenna in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,890 of them was named Kenna, which outranked 95.5% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 189,695 of them was named Kenna, which outranked 47.0% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 598 names at #7,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.