Kenneth

Scottish and Irish

"born of fire, handsome"

Kenneth Origin and Meaning

Variation of Ken

Kenneth Rank in US Top 1000

# 284 in the US

Kenneth Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 394 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Kenneth

• 284 US 2024
• 394 Nameberry 2025
• 609 Future 2028
• 976 England 2024

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Famous People Named Kenneth

• Kenneth I III, Kings of Scotland
• Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney American country music singer
• Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers American singer,songwriter
• Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins American singer,songwriter
• Kenneth Charles Branagh Northern Irish actor and director
• Kenneth Charles Williams English actor and comedian
• Kenneth Joseph Arrow American economist and Nobel Prize winner
• Kenneth Duva Burke American literary theorist and philosopher
• Kenneth Grahame Scottish children's novelist
• Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds American R&B singer and producer
• Kenneth Wheelock "Kenny" Mayne American TV sports journalist
• Kenneth Cole American fashion designer
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson American theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner
• Kenneth Winston "Ken" Starr American independent counsel
• Kenneth Newton Walker U.S. Air Force general
• Kenneth More British actor
• (Charles) Kenneth Horne English comedian
• Kenneth Lamont "Kent" Bazemore Jr., American basketball player
• Kenneth Harry Clarke English MP
• Kenneth "Mr. Kenneth" Battelle American celebrity hairdresser
• Kenneth Welsh Canadian,American actor
• Kenneth Peacock Tynan English theater critic
• Kenneth Tigar American actor
• Kenneth Thomson 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian business mogul and art collector
• Kenneth Marlar Taylor U.S. Army pilot at Pearl Harbor
• (Arthur) Kenneth Searight English linguist, creator of the Sona language
• Kenneth Graham Ross Australian playwright
• Kenneth Robinson British Minister of Health
• Kenneth Rexroth American poet
• Kenneth Lee Pike American linguist
• Kenneth David Kaunda 1st President of Zambia
• Kenneth Cordele Griffin American hedge fund manager
• Kenneth Nathaniel "Nathan" Bates 5th child on "Bringing Up Bates"
• Kenneth Arthur 'Ken' Dodd English comedian

The name Kenneth in Pop Culture

• Kenneth "Ken" Carson fashion doll made by Mattel
• Kenneth Widmerpool character in A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell
• Andromakennethamblesorten "Kenneth" Ellen Parcell character on TV's "30 Rock"
• Kenneth Monnitoff character in movie "Donnie Darko"
• Kenneth Waters character in movie "Conviction"
• Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick character on TV's South Park
• Kenneth 'Ken' McLaughlin character in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka"
• Kenneth Ford character in "Anne of Ingleside" by L.M. Montgomery
• Kenneth Dilaurentis Alison Dilaurentis' father on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"

International Variations of the name Kenneth

• Kennett Scandinavian
• Kent Scandinavian
• Kennet Scandinavian