Ken
Top 1000
On Nameberry
About Ken
Variation of Kendal
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,774 | 85 | 44.3 |
| 2015 | #1,760 | 87 | 45.4 |
| 2016 | #1,733 | 90 | 47.4 |
| 2017 | #2,161 | 63 | 34 |
| 2018 | #2,219 | 62 | 34.1 |
| 2019 | #2,568 | 51 | 28.4 |
| 2020 | #2,382 | 56 | 32.4 |
| 2021 | #2,542 | 52 | 29.7 |
| 2022 | #2,658 | 50 | 28.6 |
| 2023 | #3,257 | 37 | 21.6 |
| 2024 | #3,295 | 36 | 20.9 |
| 2025 | #3,277 | 36 | 21.1 |
World rankings
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Famous Kens
- Ken Kesey
novelist, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ken
Japanese musician
- Ken Akamatsu
Japanese author
- Ken Anderson
American football player
- Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns
American documentary filmmaker
- Ken Caminiti
Major League Baseball player
- Ken Campbell
English writer, actor, and director
- Ken Casey
bassist of the Boston Irish punk rock group Dropkick Murphys
- Ken Clark
American actor
- Ken Davitian
American film and TV actor
- Ken Dodd
English comedian
- Ken Dryden
Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender
- Ken Follett
British author of thrillers and historical novels
- Ken Griffey Sr.
American baseball player
- Ken Griffey Jr.
American baseball player
- Ken Harrelson
Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
- Ken Holtzman
American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ken Hughes
writer and director of films, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Ken Jennings
contestant on the game show Jeopardy!
- Ken Kal
radio play,by,play announcer for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings
- Ken Kutaragi
president and CEO, later chairman, of Sony Computer Entertainment
- Ken Livingstone
English politician, former mayor of London, UK
- Ken Lloyd
Japanese,British musician, vocalist and songwriter of Fake? and Oblivion Dust
- Ken Loach
British film director
- Ken Schrader
American NASCAR driver
- Ken Takakura
Japanese film actor
- Ken Thompson
American computer scientist and one of the primary creators of Unix
- Ken Watanabe
Japanese theater, TV, and film actor
- Kendrick "Ken" Jeong
American actor and physician
Ken in pop culture
- Ken Carson
Barbie's boyfriend
- Ken "Acro" Dingling
character in "Ace Attorney" game series
- Ken Kaneki
character in "Tokyo Ghoul"
- Ken Wheatley
character in "Jurrasic Park" series
