Kennan

Kennan was the #6,446 boys' name in the US in 2025 (13 babies).

Kennan as a boy’s name

  • US
  • Canada
Kennan as a boy’s name, US, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.0518801900192019401960198020002020US
Kennan as a boy’s name, US, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.051880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSCanada
2025#6,446 (13)—
2024#6,199 (14)—
2023#5,927 (15)#2,336 (7)
2022#6,828 (12)—
2021#8,166 (9)—
2020#5,235 (17)—
2019#4,951 (19)—
2018#4,918 (19)—
2017#6,338 (13)—
2016#5,318 (17)—
2015#5,289 (17)—
2014#4,538 (21)—
2013#4,463 (21)—
2012#7,050 (11)—
2011#3,885 (26)—

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 2004 at #2,599.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1952.
  • In 2016, 23% of US babies named Kennan were girls.

How common is it?

about 1 in 130,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Kennan is likely to keep rising in the US in 2026: about 1 in 100,000 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 71,000 to 1 in 140,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
KennanCanadaBoys—too few
KennanNorthern IrelandBoys—too few
KennanUSGirls—too few
KennanUSBoys#6,44613