Kenyon

Kenyon is the 2,866th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,274 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,400.

By the numbers

People: 12,274
Rank: 2,866th
How common: 1 in 24,400
Per 100,000: 4.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Kenyon

Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978)British archaeologist
Frederic G. Kenyon (1863–1952)British palaeographer and classical scholar
Doris Kenyon (1897–1979)American actress
Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965)American novelist
Carol Kenyon (born 1959)British singer and musician
Cynthia Kenyon (born 1954)US molecular biologist

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

Surnames like Kenyon

Also a first name

Kenyon has been given to 8,164 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2005. 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.