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Kenneth
Pronounced /ˈkɛn.əθ/
Rank in 2024
#284
Born in 2024
1,186
Peak year
1957 · #14
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,186 boys were named Kenneth, about 1 in every 1,446.
- It peaked in 1957 with 28,060 babies, ranked #14.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,282,809 boys have been named Kenneth since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kenneth per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.5Greatest1901–27
- 12.2Silent1928–45
- 12.9Boomers1946–64
- 8.1Gen X1965–80
- 4.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 125,030 babies, 7.48 per 1,000. Silent: 251,904 babies, 12.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 485,701 babies, 12.94 per 1,000. Gen X: 219,506 babies, 8.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 124,234 babies, 4.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 54,488 babies, 1.74 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,006 babies, 0.92 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicized form of two Goidelic names, Old Irish Cináed, the name of Scottish kings derived from Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ (Ciniod), and the saint's name Cainnech (literally “handsome”) (modern Scottish Gaelic Coinneach), as in the surname Mackenzie.
- A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
- Origin
- Scottish Gaelic
- Say it
- /ˈkɛn.əθ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kenneth, CC BY-SA 4.0.