US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE KEN

Same rise and fall as Ken, around the same years.

WHERE KEN IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Ken ranked highest in California (#4,783). 50 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Ken name popularity

Ken has been given to 33,043 babies in the United States since 1900.

It peaked in 1960, when 1,780 babies got the name, and its best rank was #375 in 1960.

In 2025, 36 babies were named Ken (#6,962 in the country), 98% below the peak. That is down 59% from 2015.

Almost every Ken is a boy.

An estimated 26K people named Ken are alive in the US today, with a median age of 64.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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