Meaning and history
From a surname originally derived from the English county of Kent, a name that may itself come from a Brythonic word meaning “border, edge, coast.”
20062006: 139 births, rank #1,202
2007: 148 births, rank #1,188
2008: 140 births, rank #1,240
2009: 122 births, rank #1,390
2010: 129 births, rank #1,323
20112011: 132 births, rank #1,296
2012: 114 births, rank #1,448
2013: 161 births, rank #1,128
2014: 149 births, rank #1,225
2015: 157 births, rank #1,182
20162016: 164 births, rank #1,164
2017: 140 births, rank #1,293
2018: 157 births, rank #1,199
2019: 122 births, rank #1,432
2020: 121 births, rank #1,423
20212021: 130 births, rank #1,407
2022: 116 births, rank #1,540
2023: 102 births, rank #1,668
2024: 104 births, rank #1,631
20252025: 101 births, rank #1,654
Kent rose from #950 to #883 for boys between 2002 and 2003. Its highest annual birth count came in 1962, with 2,587 births.