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Kenard

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kenard has been given to 776 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Kenard, 2022

1 in 677,000

Kenard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenard: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenard means

Kenard is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kenard is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 776 boys were recorded with the name Kenard between 1919 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1991; its best national rank was #2,017 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kenard?

Kenard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenard was born before 1984 — so the typical Kenard is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
697
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Kenard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (26)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,017
1964

Spellings of Kenard

Kenard is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 48.9% against Kenard's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kenard is used

Across 1910–2025, Kenard was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,108,502 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Maryland1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kenard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kenard around the world

Where Kenard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1948–1948
    #268
    in 1948

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kenard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,017
1964
Peak year
1991
26 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
776
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kenard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KennardKendonKennerKensonKendryKenleyKennanKenethKenielKendenKentaKennonKendaleKentoKenrickKendrixKendelKenwardKenricKenyanKenshinKennisKensleyKendrell

Sibling names for Kenard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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