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Kenith

Boys' name

Variant of Kenneth

Kenith has been given to 1,630 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1963, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Kenith, 2023

1 in 663,000

Kenith 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenith: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kenneth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenith means

Kenith is a variant of Kenneth.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kenith is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɛn.əθ/ for Kenith.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kenith → Kenneth. The family’s meaning is “handsome”, recorded in English with the source elements Cainnech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kenneth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,630 boys were recorded with the name Kenith between 1913 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,262 in 1938.

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 Kenith?

Kenith had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenith 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keniths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenith was born before 1961 — so the typical Kenith is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,104
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1960s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (296).

Is Kenith 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (37)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,262
1938

Spellings of Kenith

Kenith is not the most common spelling — Kenneth is, with 70.4% against Kenith's 0.09%.

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 Kenith is used

Across 1910–2025, Kenith was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 567,170 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Kenith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kenith 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
#1,262
1938
Peak year
1963
37 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,630
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kenith

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

KennithKennonKenethKennanKenleyKendonKendrixKenrickKenneithKendalKennerKensonKendryKenaiKendricKendaleKennardKennthKennieKenielKendenKentaKenyonKenney

Sibling names for Kenith

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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