Kenny
Kenny is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 140 births. Its best rank was 169th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1400.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19601,937 births
- Best rank
- #169in 1960
- Since 1908
- 51,777people given the name
The story in the numbers
51,777 boys have been named Kenny in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 1,937 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 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kenny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 85 | |
| 1920s | 262 | |
| 1930s | 1,310 | |
| 1940s | 4,945 | |
| 1950s | 8,389 | |
| 1960s | 12,365 | |
| 1970s | 4,788 | |
| 1980s | 5,598 | |
| 1990s | 5,314 | |
| 2000s | 5,169 | |
| 2010s | 2,740 | |
| 2020s | 801 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Kenny was the 169th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Kenny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gilpeak 1957
- Kerwinpeak 1959
- Terencepeak 1964
- Randellpeak 1960
- Raynaldopeak 1961
- Crispeak 1960
- Darrypeak 1960
- Mickelpeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
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.