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Keneth vs Kent

American parents have registered 69,493 Kents since 1880, against 1,467 Keneths. Kent is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keneth against Kent, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keneth Kent

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kent has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1914, when Keneth had 10 and Kent had 25.

Side by side

  Keneth Kent
Total US births 1,46769,493
Most in one year 292,592
Babies in 2025 12101
Estimated living today 97050,000
Median age today 4361
Peak year 19561962
Best rank 1,443rd boys136th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd1,654th
First recorded 19141885
Girls / boys 0 / 1,467171 / 69,322

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kents alive today are over 61; half the Keneths are over 43. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keneth and Kent.