Kenney

Kenney is the 1,321st most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,131 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,400.

By the numbers

People: 26,131
Rank: 1,321st
How common: 1 in 11,400
Per 100,000: 8.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kenney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kenney

Annie Kenney (1879–1953)British suffragette
Emma Kenney (born 1999)American actress
Bob Kenney (1931–2014)basketball player
Ben Kenney (born 1977)American musician
George Kenney (1889–1977)United States Army general
Kerri Kenney (born 1970)American actress and musician
Jason Kenney (born 1968)Canadian politician and 18th Premier of Alberta
June Kenney (1933–2021)American actress

People named Kenney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kenney

Also a first name

Kenney has been given to 2,505 American babies as a first name since 1899, peaking in 1960. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.