first name
KENNITH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,876 people named Kennith, 72.8% reported their origin as White, 16.2% as Black and 4.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kennith peaked in 1956, when 234 babies got the name.
At least 10,565 babies have been given the name since 1904. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kennith by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #1,035. The largest share of babies named Kennith, 36.6%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kennith is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kennith has been most common in West Virginia (6.8×), Kentucky (5.5×), and Arkansas (4.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.11×).
6,728 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kennith, most common first.
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