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How popular is “Kenna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenna” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kenna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenna” 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
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 5 5 0%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1934 14 0.000006741 7 7 0%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 21 0.00000912 12 9 14%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 100%
1944 39 0.000014498 31 8 59%
1945 25 0.000009424 25 100%
1946 28 0.000008763 28 100%
1947 26 0.000007218 26 100%
1948 39 0.000011296 34 5 74%
1949 44 0.000012626 38 6 73%
1950 31 0.000008849 31 100%
1951 53 0.000014388 47 6 77%
1952 39 0.000010269 39 100%
1953 43 0.000011158 43 100%
1954 55 0.000013817 50 5 82%
1955 56 0.000013947 56 100%
1956 79 0.000019161 68 11 72%
1957 71 0.000016896 66 5 86%
1958 59 0.000014272 59 100%
1959 69 0.000016595 62 7 80%
1960 73 0.000017574 66 7 81%
1961 69 0.000016657 69 100%
1962 66 0.000016355 66 100%
1963 78 0.000019706 78 100%
1964 88 0.000022636 88 100%
1965 68 0.000018756 68 100%
1966 59 0.000016975 59 100%
1967 56 0.000016495 51 5 82%
1968 67 0.000019832 67 100%
1969 71 0.00002043 71 100%
1970 79 0.000021905 79 100%
1971 81 0.000023599 81 100%
1972 87 0.000027681 79 8 82%
1973 77 0.000025523 77 100%
1974 73 0.000024013 73 100%
1975 73 0.000024177 73 100%
1976 64 0.000021092 64 100%
1977 85 0.000026759 85 100%
1978 64 0.000020165 64 100%
1979 65 0.000019537 60 5 85%
1980 72 0.000020903 72 100%
1981 78 0.000022547 72 6 85%
1982 80 0.000022805 80 100%
1983 66 0.000019057 66 100%
1984 85 0.000024364 85 100%
1985 107 0.000029979 97 10 81%
1986 81 0.000022771 81 100%
1987 81 0.000022465 81 100%
1988 105 0.000028416 105 100%
1989 102 0.000026532 102 100%
1990 112 0.000028337 112 100%
1991 107 0.000027469 107 100%
1992 107 0.000027855 98 9 83%
1993 104 0.000027584 104 100%
1994 129 0.000034699 129 100%
1995 140 0.000038229 140 100%
1996 156 0.000042773 156 100%
1997 171 0.000047163 171 100%
1998 192 0.000052199 187 5 95%
1999 205 0.000055497 205 100%
2000 215 0.00005688 215 100%
2001 239 0.000063846 239 100%
2002 286 0.000076506 286 100%
2003 301 0.000079162 301 100%
2004 320 0.000083749 320 100%
2005 293 0.000076206 293 100%
2006 289 0.00007305 289 100%
2007 348 0.00008705 343 5 97%
2008 335 0.000085227 335 100%
2009 378 0.000098948 378 100%
2010 327 0.00008848 318 9 94%
2011 323 0.000088305 316 7 96%
2012 309 0.000084487 299 10 94%
2013 259 0.000071043 253 6 95%
2014 329 0.000088766 329 100%
2015 429 0.000115917 422 7 97%
2016 455 0.000124022 444 11 95%
2017 404 0.000112969 404 100%
2018 434 0.000123439 426 8 96%
2019 436 0.000125615 436 100%
2020 423 0.000126625 414 9 96%
2021 414 0.000122198 406 8 96%
2022 436 0.000128875 429 7 97%
2023 381 0.000115064 375 6 97%
2024 388 0.000116569 388 100%

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