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Kennard

#10,210 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Kennard has been given to 2,711 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #10,210 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Kennard, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kennard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kennard: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kennard means

Kennard is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kennard is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɛn.əɹd/ and /ˈkɛn.əd/ for Kennard.

The naming story behind Kennard

Kennard is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

Origin, language, and formation

Kennard is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,711 boys were recorded with the name Kennard between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,013 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,138 in 2020 to #10,210 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,436 in 2015 to #10,210 in 2025.

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 Kennard?

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 boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,210
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kennard 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kennard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kennards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kennard was born before 1963 — so the typical Kennard is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,845
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (385).

Is Kennard 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,928
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.7%
Peak was 1954 (55)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,013
1954

Spellings of Kennard

Kennard is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 56.4% against Kennard's 0.52%.

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 Kennard is used

Across 1910–2025, Kennard was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 278,398 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Kennard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kennard around the world

Where Kennard 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
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

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

Notable people named Kennard

People whose public names include Kennard, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kennard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,210
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,928
Best rank ever
#1,013
1954
Peak year
1954
55 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,711
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kennard

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

KenardKendricKendellKendrixKenrickKennedyKendaleKennonKentrellRashardKendalKennithKenethKennanShepardKenleyKenaiKenyonKendonKendrellKenwardHaywardKenshinKenan

Names with a curve like Kennard

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kennard, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PrentissDoranFranzAnselmoNilsNarcisoAlphonzoVernellModestoElleryFlorentinoPrentice

Sibling names for Kennard

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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