Keneth
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Keneth by the numbers
Keneth was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 28 babies in 1956, making it a 1950s name.
What we can tell you about Keneth
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Keneth. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kennethhandsome, fair1,751 in the US (2017)
- Keithforest; from gaelic cèith582 in the US (2017)
- Kennithhandsome; a form of Kenneth16 in the US (2017)
- Kemetblack land; ancient name for Egypt14 in the US (2017)
- Kenechithanks to god; a form of Chinedu or similar Igbo names9 in the US (2017)
- Kennetroyal; a form of Kenneth6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Keneth
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