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Kenzo

#630 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Kenzō

Kenzo has been given to 4,695 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #630 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 596 recorded.

Babies named Kenzo, 2025

1 in 7,450

Kenzo over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenzo: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kenzō

Japanese

What Kenzo means

Kenzo is a alternate transcription of Kenzō.

Origin, language, and formation

Kenzo is used in English, Dutch, French and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Kenzo comes through Japanese けんぞう.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kenzō.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Kenzo is pronounced /kɛn.zo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,690 boys were recorded with the name Kenzo between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 596 in 2022; its best national rank was #505 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #548 in 2020 to #630 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,747 in 2015 to #630 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Kenzo between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #16,809 in 2019.

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 Kenzo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,450
445 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,840
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#630
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,165 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenzo 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,165 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kenzos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenzo was born before 2021 — so the typical Kenzo is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,662
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 65.1% of all recorded uses (3,055).

Is Kenzo 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
−44
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−82
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,117
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.7%
Peak was 2022 (596)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#505
2022

Spellings of Kenzo

Kenzo is not the most common spelling — Kent is, with 27.4% against Kenzo's 1.9%.

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 Kenzo is used

Across 2016–2025, Kenzo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 613 boys, against 1 in 4,180 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

3163 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 613
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 1,282
  3. 3Maryland1 in 1,408
  4. 4Nevada1 in 2,083
  5. 5New York1 in 2,273
  6. 6California1 in 2,857
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 2,857
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 3,226

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.

Geographically, Kenzo is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 98% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kenzo around the world

Where Kenzo 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #507
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #281
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #575
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kenzo

People whose public names include Kenzo, 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.

Kenzo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#630
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 82
Best rank ever
#505
2022
Peak year
2022
596 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,690
Count in 2025
445

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,809
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kenzo

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

KenanKenjiKenaiKendalKenyonLonzoKendellKentonKennonRenzoKentaKenethKennedyKenyaKennardKennanKendricKenleyKentoKennithKentrellKendonKennyKenney

Names with a curve like Kenzo

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

LianAnderLedgerKrewCillianEliamTruTadeoSalemCaspianMyloZakai

Sibling names for Kenzo

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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