girls:
5 births since 1970
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
10.5k births since 1904
#1133 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.6k births since 1904
#2577 (67th percentile)
The name Kennith is the #2,577 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,552 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 66.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,133 (75.3% percentile) for all time with 10,547 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1970.
Kennith first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Kennith is available in 115 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023 (115 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 Kennith has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kennith reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 32.6% percentile (ranked #354) with 162 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 162 births per million (ranked 32.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kennith ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kennith reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #773) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kennith".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kennith", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kenneth" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kenneth..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kennith. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Kennith is pronounced as KEH-nihth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-neeth, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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