Keny
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keny has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2010, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Keny, 2023
1 in 368,000
Keny 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Keny over time
In 2024, Keny went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Keny?
Keny 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 368,000
- 9 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,294 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keny sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kenys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keny was born before 2005 — so the typical Keny is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 217
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Keny 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 2010 (16)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Keny
Keny is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 40.3% against Keny'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.
Where Keny is used
Across 1910–2025, Keny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Keny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keny around the world
Where Keny 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.
- France1983–2025#3,954in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Keny by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keny
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keny
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.