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Kenton
Pronounced /ˈkɛn.tən/
Rank in 2024
#2,122
Born in 2024
70
Peak year
2014 · #1054
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 70 boys were named Kenton, about 1 in every 24,504.
- It peaked in 2014 with 188 babies, ranked #1054.
- It first shows up in the records in 1912.
- 11,187 boys have been named Kenton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kenton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 306 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 757 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,539 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,653 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,265 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,132 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,535 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From either the Old English personal name Cena or cyne- (“royal”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛn.tən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kenton, CC BY-SA 4.0.