Kenny

girls:

527 births since 1924

#5189 (9th percentile)

boys:

51.6k births since 1908

#489 (89th percentile)

overall:

52.2k births since 1908

#1054 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenny".

1908 2023 19082023

Key Statistics

Total Births
527
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1960
First Recorded
1924
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#587
Current Rank
#943
Female statistics
Total Births
51,634
Peak Births
1,935
Peak Year
1960
First Recorded
1908
Peak Percentile
74.4%
Current Percentile
17.0%
Peak Rank
#169
Current Rank
#756
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kenny

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kenny. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.0% confident that Kenny is pronounced as KEH-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-NEE, at 13.0% confidence.

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KEH-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
87.0% confidence
K EH1 N IY0
KEH-NEE (2 syllables)
Verified
13.0% confidence
K EH1 N IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kenny. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kenny, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KEE-nee (2 syllables)
5 names 907 births
K IY1 N IY0
KEE-uh-nee (3 syllables)
4 names 697 births
K IY1 AH0 N IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K EH1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.