Kenney
Kenney is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 794th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196094 births
- Best rank
- #794in 1960
- Since 1899
- 2,500people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,500 boys have been named Kenney in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 20%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kenney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 23 | |
| 1920s | 100 | |
| 1930s | 167 | |
| 1940s | 318 | |
| 1950s | 507 | |
| 1960s | 507 | |
| 1970s | 268 | |
| 1980s | 232 | |
| 1990s | 198 | |
| 2000s | 120 | |
| 2010s | 48 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Kenney was the 794th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Kenney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrellpeak 1958
- Derrypeak 1957
- Davidpeak 1955
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Frankiepeak 1959
- Stuartpeak 1960
- Vicpeak 1958
- Douglaspeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.