boys:
11.1k births since 1912
#1098 (76th percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1912
#2493 (68th percentile)
The name Kenton is the #2,493 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,115 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 67.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,098 (76.1% percentile) for all time with 11,115 births since 1912.
Kenton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912).
For boys, Kenton reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 24.5% percentile (ranked #489) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 92 births per million (ranked 20.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kenton ranks #842 for boys (7.6% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 44.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kenton is pronounced as KEHN-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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