boys:
2.7k births since 1906
#2426 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1906
#5179 (33rd percentile)
The name Kennard is the #5,179 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,703 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 33.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,426 (47.1% percentile) for all time with 2,703 births since 1906.
Kennard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for boys in 1906). Birth data for Kennard is available in 111 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Kennard reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #566) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kennard ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 11.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kennard".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kennard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Kennard is pronounced as KEH-nahrd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-nerd, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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