girls:
76 births since 2001
#5640 (1st percentile)
boys:
553 births since 1917
#4033 (12th percentile)
overall:
629 births since 1917
#7110 (8th percentile)
The name Kennis is the #7,110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 629 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,033 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 553 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,640 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 76 births since 2001.
Kennis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Kennis is available in 77 out of the 103 years between 1917 and 2019 (71 years for boys and 11 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 Kennis has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Kennis were boys.
For boys, Kennis reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #655) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Kennis reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #932) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kennis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kennis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Kennis is pronounced as KEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-nees, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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