Kenny
About 52,479 American babies have been named Kenny since 1908, most of them around 1960. In 2025 it ranked 1,267th. About 42,000 Kennys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kenny boys named Kenny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 52,479
- Estimated living today
- 42,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 169th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,267th
- First recorded
- 1908
- Girls / boys
- 548 / 51,931
How old the living Kennys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 52,479 babies given the name since 1908, about 42,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 the name comes from
From Kenneth or (diminutive form).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kennys
- Kenny Rogers (1938–2020)American country singer
- Kenny Dalglish (born 1951)Scottish association football player and manager
- Kenny G (born 1956)American saxophonist
- Kenny Cunningham (born 1985)Costa Rican association football player
- Kenny Baker (1934–2016)British actor and musician
- Kenny Clarke (1914–1985)American jazz drummer
- Kenny Tete (born 1995)Dutch association football player
- Kenny Bednarek (born 1998)American sprinter
People named Kenny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kenny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kenny is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.2×), Mississippi (1.9×), Kentucky (1.8×), Tennessee (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Kenny peaked:
Kenny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Kenny +1 spelling | 7,440 | 160th |
| England and Wales boys | Kenny | 1,188 | 610th |
| Belgium boys | Kenny | 980 | 80th |
| Norway boys | Kenny | 187 | 304th |
| Switzerland boys | Kenny | 168 | 379th |
| Scotland boys | Kenny | 139 | 168th |
| France girls | Kenny | 100 | 2,195th |
| Ireland boys | Kenny | 59 | 541st |
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.
Kenny: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kenny | 69 | 0.006% | 325th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kenny | 92 | 0.021% | 195th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Kenny | 7 | 0.011% | 97th |
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.
By canton, Kenny is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 40 of them.
Kenny: rank by region
In 2018, Kenny was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Kenny | 388 | 7 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kenny appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (171st).
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.
Kenny by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 10 | 421st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kenny among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Kenny | 100 | 126 |
| Finland girls | Kenny | 7 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Kenny lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 192 men called Kenny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Kenny | 24 | 0.041 | 1,834 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Kenny | 10 | 0.019 | 3,506 |
| Asturias | Kenny | 7 | 0.014 | 2,490 |
| Madrid | Kenny | 40 | 0.012 | 3,585 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Kenny | 11 | 0.011 | 4,324 |
| Barcelona | Kenny | 29 | 0.010 | 4,148 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 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.
Related names
Kenny against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.