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Kennia vs Kent

American parents have registered 69,493 Kents since 1880, against 796 Kennias. Kent is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kennia 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 2012, when Kennia had 33 and Kent had 114.

Side by side

  Kennia Kent
Total US births 79669,493
Most in one year 362,592
Babies in 2025 6101
Estimated living today 79050,000
Median age today 2161
Peak year 20021962
Best rank 3,654th girls136th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,654th
First recorded 19781885
Girls / boys 796 / 0171 / 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 Kennias are over 21. That is 40 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: Kennia and Kent.