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Kenai

The boy's name Kenai has been in the national records since 1992, with 2,465 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 710th. About 2,400 Kenais are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kenai boys named Kenai

By the numbers

Total US births
2,465
Estimated living today
2,400
Median age today
4
Peak year
2025
Best rank
710th
Rank in 2025
710th
First recorded
1992
Girls / boys
74 / 2,391

How old the living Kenais are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,465 babies given the name since 1992, about 2,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kenai is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kenai is most concentrated in Washington (5.2×), Utah (4.2×), Colorado (4.1×), Arizona (4.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Kenai peaked:

All the names of 2025

Kenai elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Kenaï +2 spellings 90 2,816th
Switzerland boys Kenai 59 684th
England and Wales boys Kenai 48 2,007th
Belgium boys Kenai +1 spelling 21 1,197th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kenai: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Kenai 57 0.005% 489th
French boys Switzerland Kenai 2 0.000% 677th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Kenai: rank by region

In 2008, Kenai was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Kenai 746 6

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Kenai by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 2 546th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Where Kenai lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 677 men called Kenai were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Araba/Álava Kenai 28 0.166 492
Palmas, Las Kenai 73 0.125 746
Bizkaia Kenai 63 0.112 624
Navarra Kenai 27 0.080 848
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Kenai 41 0.077 1,112
Gipuzkoa Kenai 27 0.075 802

Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.