Kenyon
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Kenyon
Kenyon is a very engaging British surname name, the middle y giving it a kind of southwestern canyonesque undertone.
Though Kenyon appears in English records as far back as the fourteenth century and arrived in America in the seventeenth, it sounds cooler these days than the more traditional Kenneth.
Kenyon has literary ties to the prestigious journal The Kenyon Review, originating from Ohio's Kenyon College, and sports enthusiasts will recognize it as the name of basketball star Kenyon Martin (nicknamed K-Mart), the first pick of the 2000 NBA draft, who plays for the LA Clippers.
Kenyon is also given to girls.
Pronounced KEN-yun.
As of October 2026, Kenyon ranked #3707 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #663 in 2005.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,434 | 116 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,688 | 93 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,422 | 53 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,008 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,249 | 61 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,536 | 52 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,249 | 61 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,752 | 46 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,694 | 49 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #3,509 | 33 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,729 | 30 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,707 | 30 | — | 0 |
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Kenyon on lists
Famous Kenyons
- Kenyon Octavia ColemanBoy
American football player
- Kenyon Lee MartinBoy
American Professional Basketball Player
- Kenyon CoxBoy
American painter
- Kenyon Edward WrightBoy
Scottish Episcopal priest and politician
- Kenyon HopkinsBoy
American composer
- (Maurice) Kenyon TaylorBoy
British electrical engineer and inventor
- Kenyon Jesse McMahonBoy
son of Shane McMahon of the WWE wrestling family
- Pieter Kenyon van der BylBoy
South African and Rhodesian statesman
- Sherrilyn Kenyon author of the Dark HuntersBoy
Chronicles of Nick, The League, Lords of Avalon, Deadman's Cross, Hell,Hunters, Dream,Hunter, and Were,Hunter book series
Kenyon in pop culture
- Kenyon CollegeBoy
school in Gambier, Ohio, USA
Variations & nicknames
- KenyanBoy