girls:
53 births since 1988
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1952
#3411 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1952
#6492 (16th percentile)
The name Kennan is the #6,492 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,249 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 16.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,411 (25.6% percentile) for all time with 1,196 births since 1952. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1988.
Kennan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Kennan is available in 68 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (68 years for boys and 8 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 Kennan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kennan reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #811) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kennan ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 42.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kennan reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #891) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kennan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kennan is pronounced as KEH-nuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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