boys:
352 births since 2005
#4234 (8th percentile)
overall:
352 births since 2005
#7387 (5th percentile)
The name Keniel is the #7,387 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 352 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,234 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 352 births since 2005.
Keniel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (first recorded for boys in 2005).
For boys, Keniel reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #893) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keniel ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 67.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keniel".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Keniel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Keniel is pronounced as keh-NEE-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-nee-uhl, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K EH0 N IY1 EH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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