Keng

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 9 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
9
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Keng by the numbers

Keng was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 32 babies in 1992, making it a 1990s name.

What we can tell you about Keng

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 Keng. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kentbright rim or edge of the coast139 in the US (2017)
  • Kenknowledge; a form of Kenneth63 in the US (2017)
  • Kennroyal; a form of Kenneth6 in the US (2017)
  • King2,669 in the US (2017)
  • Kyng215 in the US (2017)
  • Kena21 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Keng

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