Ken
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Ken
In many minds this one belongs to Barbie, but with such positive meanings and international connections, can Ken make the transition to usability again?
Ken is also given to girls.
Pronounced KEN.
As of October 2026, Ken ranked #14063 in US births in 1990 SSA, peaked at #7033 in 1962.
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 |
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Ken on lists
Famous Kens
- Ken KeseyBoy
novelist, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- KenBoy
Japanese musician
- Ken AkamatsuBoy
Japanese author
- Ken AndersonBoy
American football player
- Kenneth Lauren "Ken" BurnsBoy
American documentary filmmaker
- Ken CaminitiBoy
Major League Baseball player
- Ken CampbellBoy
English writer, actor, and director
- Ken CaseyBoy
bassist of the Boston Irish punk rock group Dropkick Murphys
- Ken ClarkBoy
American actor
- Ken DavitianBoy
American film and TV actor
- Ken DoddBoy
English comedian
- Ken DrydenBoy
Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender
- Ken FollettBoy
British author of thrillers and historical novels
- Ken Griffey Sr.Boy
American baseball player
- Ken Griffey Jr.Boy
American baseball player
- Ken HarrelsonBoy
Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
- Ken HoltzmanBoy
American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ken HughesBoy
writer and director of films, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Ken JenningsBoy
contestant on the game show Jeopardy!
- Ken KalBoy
radio play,by,play announcer for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings
- Ken KutaragiBoy
president and CEO, later chairman, of Sony Computer Entertainment
- Ken LivingstoneBoy
English politician, former mayor of London, UK
- Ken LloydBoy
Japanese,British musician, vocalist and songwriter of Fake? and Oblivion Dust
- Ken LoachBoy
British film director
- Ken SchraderBoy
American NASCAR driver
- Ken TakakuraBoy
Japanese film actor
- Ken ThompsonBoy
American computer scientist and one of the primary creators of Unix
- Ken WatanabeBoy
Japanese theater, TV, and film actor
- Kendrick "Ken" JeongBoy
American actor and physician
Ken in pop culture
- Ken CarsonBoy
Barbie's boyfriend
- Ken "Acro" DinglingBoy
character in "Ace Attorney" game series
- Ken KanekiBoy
character in "Tokyo Ghoul"
- Ken WheatleyBoy
character in "Jurrasic Park" series