girls:
518 births since 1995
#5198 (9th percentile)
boys:
90 births since 1981
#4496 (2nd percentile)
overall:
608 births since 1981
#7131 (8th percentile)
The name Kenly is the #7,131 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 608 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 7.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,198 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 518 births since 1995. For boys, it ranks #4,496 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 90 births since 1981.
Kenly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 1995 for girls). Birth data for Kenly is available in 29 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (28 years for girls and 14 years for boys). 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 Kenly has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kenly were girls. Interestingly, until around 1995, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1981 to 1994), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (85.9% girls from 1995 to 2023).
For girls, Kenly reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #932) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kenly ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 28.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kenly reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #869) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kenly is pronounced as KEHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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