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How popular is “Kent” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kent” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kent” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kent” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 -100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 -100%
1912 22 0.000022266 22 -100%
1913 35 0.00003078 35 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 -100%
1915 46 0.000025103 46 -100%
1916 59 0.0000305 59 -100%
1917 56 0.000027906 56 -100%
1918 53 0.000024411 53 -100%
1919 63 0.000029854 63 -100%
1920 91 0.000040218 91 -100%
1921 71 0.000030413 71 -100%
1922 98 0.000042811 98 -100%
1923 99 0.000042997 99 -100%
1924 89 0.00003737 89 -100%
1925 121 0.000051858 121 -100%
1926 128 0.000055751 5 123 -92%
1927 124 0.000053463 124 -100%
1928 128 0.000056614 128 -100%
1929 138 0.000062952 138 -100%
1930 166 0.000074664 166 -100%
1931 179 0.00008506 179 -100%
1932 209 0.000098992 209 -100%
1933 197 0.000098527 197 -100%
1934 249 0.000119895 249 -100%
1935 351 0.000167951 351 -100%
1936 437 0.000210341 437 -100%
1937 405 0.000190081 405 -100%
1938 435 0.000196604 435 -100%
1939 495 0.000224649 495 -100%
1940 578 0.000251011 578 -100%
1941 676 0.000277456 676 -100%
1942 717 0.000262463 717 -100%
1943 813 0.000288037 813 -100%
1944 746 0.000277315 5 741 -99%
1945 715 0.000269515 715 -100%
1946 888 0.000277908 888 -100%
1947 1120 0.000310911 1120 -100%
1948 1027 0.000297464 1027 -100%
1949 1071 0.000307337 1071 -100%
1950 1233 0.000351948 1233 -100%
1951 1329 0.000360775 6 1323 -99%
1952 1618 0.000426013 1618 -100%
1953 1641 0.000425831 5 1636 -99%
1954 1730 0.000434596 9 1721 -99%
1955 1862 0.000463752 6 1856 -99%
1956 2142 0.00051952 5 2137 -100%
1957 2296 0.000546388 2296 -100%
1958 2404 0.000581533 2404 -100%
1959 2475 0.000595239 8 2467 -99%
1960 2404 0.000578745 6 2398 -100%
1961 2385 0.000575767 11 2374 -99%
1962 2593 0.000642568 5 2588 -100%
1963 2408 0.000608357 9 2399 -99%
1964 2254 0.000579791 8 2246 -99%
1965 1854 0.000511385 8 1846 -99%
1966 1584 0.000455741 12 1572 -98%
1967 1404 0.000413562 10 1394 -99%
1968 1225 0.000362596 6 1219 -99%
1969 1225 0.000352485 1225 -100%
1970 1158 0.000321086 6 1152 -99%
1971 1013 0.000295133 10 1003 -98%
1972 791 0.000251671 5 786 -99%
1973 728 0.000241308 728 -100%
1974 587 0.000193092 5 582 -98%
1975 502 0.000166259 502 -100%
1976 508 0.000167419 508 -100%
1977 487 0.000153314 487 -100%
1978 499 0.000157221 499 -100%
1979 482 0.000144875 482 -100%
1980 497 0.000144288 497 -100%
1981 503 0.000145402 5 498 -98%
1982 565 0.000161062 6 559 -98%
1983 561 0.000161982 5 556 -98%
1984 554 0.000158796 5 549 -98%
1985 532 0.000149057 532 -100%
1986 465 0.000130725 465 -100%
1987 444 0.000123141 444 -100%
1988 461 0.000124762 461 -100%
1989 438 0.000113931 438 -100%
1990 394 0.000099684 394 -100%
1991 365 0.000093704 365 -100%
1992 369 0.000096062 369 -100%
1993 331 0.000087792 331 -100%
1994 301 0.000080965 301 -100%
1995 227 0.000061985 227 -100%
1996 257 0.000070465 257 -100%
1997 239 0.000065917 239 -100%
1998 228 0.000061987 228 -100%
1999 191 0.000051707 191 -100%
2000 215 0.00005688 215 -100%
2001 177 0.000047283 177 -100%
2002 169 0.000045208 169 -100%
2003 192 0.000050495 192 -100%
2004 159 0.000041613 159 -100%
2005 154 0.000040054 154 -100%
2006 139 0.000035135 139 -100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 -100%
2008 140 0.000035617 140 -100%
2009 122 0.000031936 122 -100%
2010 129 0.000034905 129 -100%
2011 132 0.000036087 132 -100%
2012 114 0.00003117 114 -100%
2013 161 0.000044162 161 -100%
2014 149 0.000040201 149 -100%
2015 157 0.000042422 157 -100%
2016 164 0.000044703 164 -100%
2017 140 0.000039148 140 -100%
2018 157 0.000044654 157 -100%
2019 122 0.000035149 122 -100%
2020 121 0.000036221 121 -100%
2021 130 0.000038371 130 -100%
2022 116 0.000034288 116 -100%
2023 102 0.000030805 102 -100%
2024 104 0.000031245 104 -100%

Explore other names

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  4. Kensy
  5. Kensyn
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  8. Kentae
  9. Kentara
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