Kenney
Recorded 1899–2020 · United States
Kenney was most popular in 1960, when 94 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,856 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,505 people named Kenney.
Kenney over time
How old is the name Kenney?
Kenney first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1899, which makes it about 126 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 101 of the 127 years since.
How many people are named Kenney?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,505 American births named Kenney between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,782 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Kenney in 2025?
Kenney was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Kenney getting more or less popular?
Kenney is out of use. It averaged 9 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Kenney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Kenney is a boy’s name — 0.2% of the 2,505 Americans given it were girls and 99.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Kenney?
Roughly 1,782 Americans named Kenney are alive today — 71% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 59 years old, and half are between 39 and 68.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Kenney is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org