Kenston

#7,961 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kenston has been given to 205 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #7,961 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Kenston, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kenston over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kenston?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,961
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenston 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenstons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenston was born before 2017 — so the typical Kenston is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
205
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Kenston 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
+1,482
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,128
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,334
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2015 (16)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,627
2015

Spellings of Kenston

Kenston is not the most common spelling — Easton is, with 23.6% against Kenston's 0.06%.

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 Kenston is used

Across 1910–2025, Kenston was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 411,675 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North 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. Kenston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kenston by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,961
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,128
Best rank ever
#5,627
2015
Peak year
2015
16 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
205
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kenston

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

Sibling names for Kenston

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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