Keni
#12,546 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keni has been given to 347 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #12,546 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.
Babies named Keni, 2025
1 in 474,000
Keni over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Keni over time
In 2025, Keni went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Keni?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,546
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keni sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kenis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keni was born before 1992 — so the typical Keni is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 22.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 259
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Keni 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
- −2,643
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,793
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 1982 (11)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Keni
Keni is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 12.6% against Keni's 0.02%.
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.
Keni around the world
Where Keni 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.
- France1996–2010#5,093in 2010
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Keni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.