girls:
5 births since 1977
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1899
#2527 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1899
#5335 (31st percentile)
The name Kenney is the #5,335 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,505 recorded births since 1899. This represents the 31.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,527 (44.9% percentile) for all time with 2,500 births since 1899. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1977.
Kenney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1899 (1899 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Kenney is available in 101 out of the 122 years between 1899 and 2020 (101 years for boys and 1 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 Kenney has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kenney reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 13.6% percentile (ranked #568) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 43 births per million (ranked 13.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Kenney reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #768) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenney".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kenney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kenney is pronounced as KEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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