Meaning and history
From a surname derived from an English place name meaning either “town on the River Kenn” or “royal town” in Old English.
20062006: 139 births, rank #1,202
2007: 125 births, rank #1,341
2008: 136 births, rank #1,276
2009: 152 births, rank #1,186
2010: 111 births, rank #1,470
20112011: 136 births, rank #1,264
2012: 163 births, rank #1,124
2013: 163 births, rank #1,115
2014: 188 births, rank #1,054
2015: 182 births, rank #1,080
20162016: 159 births, rank #1,194
2017: 137 births, rank #1,314
2018: 128 births, rank #1,375
2019: 126 births, rank #1,401
2020: 115 births, rank #1,478
20212021: 96 births, rank #1,700
2022: 96 births, rank #1,737
2023: 75 births, rank #2,014
2024: 70 births, rank #2,120
20252025: 92 births, rank #1,753
Kenton moved from #935 to #974 for boys between 1997 and 1998. Its highest annual birth count came in 1958, with 174 births.