Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kenai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenai” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kenai” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kenai” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kenai” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kenai” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kenai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenai” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 7 9 -13%
2004 52 0.000013609 52 -100%
2005 48 0.000012484 6 42 -75%
2006 33 0.000008341 33 -100%
2007 49 0.000012257 7 42 -71%
2008 40 0.000010176 40 -100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 41 -100%
2011 41 0.000011209 6 35 -71%
2012 37 0.000010117 37 -100%
2013 57 0.000015635 5 52 -82%
2014 61 0.000016458 61 -100%
2015 74 0.000019995 6 68 -84%
2016 82 0.000022351 82 -100%
2017 98 0.000027403 98 -100%
2018 93 0.000026451 93 -100%
2019 127 0.00003659 5 122 -92%
2020 150 0.000044902 6 144 -92%
2021 146 0.000043094 5 141 -93%
2022 207 0.000061186 5 202 -95%
2023 239 0.000072179 5 234 -96%
2024 332 0.000099745 5 327 -97%

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