girls:
307 births since 1900
#5409 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1896
#3307 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1896
#6131 (21st percentile)
The name Kennie is the #6,131 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,615 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 20.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,307 (27.8% percentile) for all time with 1,308 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #5,409 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 307 births since 1900.
Kennie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for boys and 1900 for girls). Birth data for Kennie is available in 102 out of the 127 years between 1896 and 2022 (97 years for boys and 45 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 Kennie has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Kennie were boys. Interestingly, until around 2019, the name was more popular for boys (82.2% boys from 1896 to 2018), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2019 to 2022).
For boys, Kennie reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #625) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Kennie reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #678) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kennie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kennie is pronounced as KEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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