Meaning and history
Anglicized form of both Coinneach and Cináed. The name was borne by the Scottish king Kenneth (Cináed) mac Alpin, who united the Scots and Picts in the 9th century, and it was later popularized outside Scotland by Walter Scott’s 1825 novel The Talisman, which used it for the hero. A notable bearer was the British novelist Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), author of The Wind in the Willows.
20062006: 3,243 births, rank #129
2007: 3,108 births, rank #135
2008: 2,967 births, rank #137
2009: 2,612 births, rank #151
2010: 2,428 births, rank #160
20112011: 2,217 births, rank #170
2012: 2,224 births, rank #175
2013: 2,177 births, rank #187
2014: 2,153 births, rank #191
2015: 2,033 births, rank #198
20162016: 1,921 births, rank #208
2017: 1,766 births, rank #217
2018: 1,671 births, rank #225
2019: 1,623 births, rank #233
2020: 1,483 births, rank #243
20212021: 1,373 births, rank #258
2022: 1,312 births, rank #263
2023: 1,321 births, rank #262
2024: 1,190 births, rank #284
20252025: 1,148 births, rank #294
Kenneth moved from #284 to #294 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 28,064 births.