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Kennith

#11,370 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Kenneth

Kennith has been given to 10,565 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #11,370 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Kennith, 2025

1 in 553,000

Kennith over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kennith: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kenneth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kennith means

Kennith is a variant of Kenneth.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kennith is used in English.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kennith → 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, 10,560 boys were recorded with the name Kennith between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 1956; its best national rank was #423 in 1940.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,107 in 2020 to #11,370 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,100 in 2015 to #11,370 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Kennith between 1970 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1970; its best national rank was #8,625 in 1970.

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 Kennith?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,370
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kennith 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kennith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenniths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kennith was born before 1956 — so the typical Kennith is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,643
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1950s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (2,064).

Is Kennith 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
−944
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,263
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,730
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.6%
Peak was 1956 (234)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#423
1940

Spellings of Kennith

Kennith is not the most common spelling — Kenneth is, with 73.8% against Kennith's 0.61%.

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 Kennith is used

Across 1910–2025, Kennith was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 21,043 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

027 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 3,704
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 4,545
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 5,263
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 5,556
  5. 5Alabama1 in 8,333
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 10,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 11,111
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 12,500

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. Kennith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kennith around the world

Where Kennith 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #1,710
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1949–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kennith by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,370
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,263
Best rank ever
#423
1940
Peak year
1956
234 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,560
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,625
1970
Peak year
1970
5 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kennith

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

KenithKennedyKendellKentonKenyonKendallKennardKendricKendalKentrellKendrickKendrixKenrickKenneithKenjiKenzoKenanKendaleKennonKenethKennanKenleyKenaiKenny

Names with a curve like Kennith

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

BartonDwainSandyErnieBernieJerroldCurtissDennyAlphonsoAlGalenDannie

Sibling names for Kennith

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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