# Kenyon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kenyon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,164 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,977 / 187 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | 9,681 |
| 1984 | 6 | 9,717 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,772 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,786 |
| 1993 | 6 | 12,601 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,568 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,634 |
| 1997 | 7 | 11,450 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,347 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,019 |
| 2002 | 9 | 10,674 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17,091 |
| 2004 | 6 | 15,138 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,644 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,714 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 187 | 1,023 |
| 2012 | 137 | 1,283 |
| 2013 | 121 | 1,394 |
| 2014 | 116 | 1,434 |
| 2015 | 93 | 1,688 |
| 2016 | 54 | 2,399 |
| 2017 | 71 | 2,008 |
| 2018 | 61 | 2,249 |
| 2019 | 52 | 2,537 |
| 2020 | 61 | 2,251 |
| 2021 | 46 | 2,756 |
| 2022 | 49 | 2,696 |
| 2023 | 33 | 3,514 |
| 2024 | 30 | 3,745 |
| 2025 | 30 | 3,707 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |

## People named Kenyon

- Kenyon Martin, American basketball player (born 1977)
- Kenyon Cox, American artist (1856-1919)
- Kenyon Martin Jr., American basketball player (born 2001)
- Kenyon Hopkins, American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom (1912-1983)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.