Kentyn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kentyn has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2012. 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 2012, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Kentyn, 2022
1 in 677,000
Kentyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kentyn?
Kentyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kentyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kentyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kentyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kentyn was born before 2015 — so the typical Kentyn is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 78.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 23
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Kentyn 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (6)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Kentyn
Kentyn is not the most common spelling — Kent is, with 32.7% against Kentyn's 0.01%.
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.
Kentyn around the world
Where Kentyn 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.
- France1997–2013#6,331in 2013
- South Australia1956–1972#479in 1972
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.
Kentyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kentyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kentyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.