girls:
33 births since 1975
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.1k births since 1913
#1682 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1913
#3815 (51st percentile)
The name Kenji is the #3,815 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,122 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 50.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,682 (63.3% percentile) for all time with 5,089 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1975.
Kenji first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Kenji is available in 97 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (97 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kenji has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kenji reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 33.8% percentile (ranked #612) with 179 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 179 births per million (ranked 33.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kenji ranks #629 for boys (31.0% percentile) with 161 births per million, which is 89.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kenji reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #782) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenji".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kenji is pronounced as KEHN-jee, which has 2 syllables.
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