Kenan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kenan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kenan: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #242, and it stood at #466 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#242highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1104
1997	#567
1998	#345
1999	#434
2000	#596
2001	#638
2002	#611
2003	#1053
2004	#1222
2005	#919
2006	#1016
2007	#1169
2008	#1048
2009	#1494
2010	#1344
2011	#1342
2012	#1086
2013	#1086
2014	#959
2015	#1327
2016	#1363
2017	#1470
2018	#1061
2019	#1369
2020	#1051
2021	#1184
2022	#901
2023	#1071
2024	#857

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #324 among boys in Norway, #727 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #857 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #242 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #466 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Kenan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 751 births with the name.

Kenan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kenan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#345 (1998)	#857 (2024)	29 of 29	751 (1996–2024)	68 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#242 (1998)	#242 (1998)	#785 (2024)	6 of 27	23 (1998–2024)	6 (1998)
Norway · Boys	#482 (2022)	#324 (2024)	#466 (2025)	3 of 4	20 (2022–2025)	11 (2024)

Kenan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kenan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	161	4 of 10	40
2000s	229	10 of 10	23
2010s	214	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	147	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 29 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births rose by 37, from 31 to 68.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kenan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #242 in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Kenan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1071	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#901	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1184	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1470	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#959	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1086	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1086	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1016	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1053	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#611	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#638	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#596	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#434	50	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#345	68	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#567	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#466	5	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#324	11	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#482	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #242, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kendal · #848, 29y
Kendall · #278, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Matheus · #243, 27y
Ozzy · #243, 26y
Amirah · #240, 30y
Arjun · #240, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Dillan · #242, 29y
Junaid · #242, 29y
Kaylem · #242, 28y
Arham · #241, 27y

Kenan was ranked #242 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kenan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kenan without appearing here.

Kenan moved ahead of

Gary Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1369 and #1253 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1051 and #2076.
Murray Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1369 and #1316 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1051 and #1825.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1369 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1051 and #1723.
Gerard Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1184 and #1184 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #901 and #1534.

Moved ahead of Kenan

Hunter Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1048 and #1085 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1494 and #848.
Luca Compare
In 2006 they stood at #290 and #330 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #629 and #123.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1053 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1222 and #731.
Theodor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #959 and #1012 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1327 and #873.

Moved the opposite way to Kenan

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #567 to #857 while Cooper went from #2022 to #139.
Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #434 to #857 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #434 to #857 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #434 to #857 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.

Moved the same way as Kenan

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #567 to #1071 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.
Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #345 to #901 and Ole from #2901 to #4789.
Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #611 to #857 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kenan went from #567 to #1327 and Morten from #2859 to #4747.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #242 in Republic of Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kenan

Kenan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kenan across 3 official records

Kenan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kenan appears in

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Kenan across 3 official records

Kenan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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