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How popular is “Kenley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kenley” 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 “Kenley” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kenley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenley” 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
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1935 29 0.000013876 29 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 -100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 -100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 -100%
1976 20 0.000006591 20 -100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 6 15 -43%
1979 20 0.000006011 10 10 0%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 12 0.000003465 7 5 17%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 21 0.000005884 7 14 -33%
1986 19 0.000005341 6 13 -37%
1987 14 0.000003883 5 9 -29%
1988 14 0.000003789 7 7 0%
1989 29 0.000007543 11 18 -24%
1990 25 0.000006325 9 16 -28%
1991 30 0.000007702 15 15 0%
1992 14 0.000003645 5 9 -29%
1993 32 0.000008487 15 17 -6%
1994 27 0.000007263 15 12 11%
1995 35 0.000009557 19 16 9%
1996 36 0.000009871 24 12 33%
1997 42 0.000011584 24 18 14%
1998 63 0.000017128 45 18 43%
1999 72 0.000019492 59 13 64%
2000 86 0.000022752 65 21 51%
2001 86 0.000022974 62 24 44%
2002 102 0.000027285 91 11 78%
2003 111 0.000029193 94 17 69%
2004 123 0.000032191 102 21 66%
2005 137 0.000035632 118 19 72%
2006 150 0.000037915 126 24 68%
2007 179 0.000044776 152 27 70%
2008 293 0.000074542 268 25 83%
2009 472 0.000123555 447 25 89%
2010 641 0.000173443 596 45 86%
2011 640 0.000174969 599 41 87%
2012 650 0.000177723 614 36 89%
2013 574 0.000157447 548 26 91%
2014 575 0.000155138 544 31 89%
2015 448 0.000121051 431 17 92%
2016 391 0.000106577 369 22 89%
2017 385 0.000107656 368 17 91%
2018 300 0.000085327 280 20 87%
2019 268 0.000077213 245 23 83%
2020 195 0.000058373 173 22 77%
2021 165 0.000048702 146 19 77%
2022 169 0.000049954 144 25 70%
2023 172 0.000051945 144 28 67%
2024 161 0.00004837 148 13 84%

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