Kënji

given name · Latin script

Kënji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese けんじ (Kenji).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 79K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 268K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 22K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,212 people, 2020

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kenji in BR Brazil, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Japanese けんじ (Kenji).

Sources 2

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kënji counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kënji is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,2121 in 79K4.1KKenji80
BR Brazil7911 in 268K791Kenji98
NL Netherlands7801 in 22K770Kenji5
SE Sweden1071 in 95K107—5
ES Spain821 in 610K82Kenji25
CR Costa Rica181 in 283K18—10

4,212 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kënji under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kënji mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Japanese けんじ (Kenji). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
Is Kënji a male or female name?
Kënji is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Kënji have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Kënji, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenji.
Where is Kënji most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kënji is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kënji?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,212 people named Kënji in 2020, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kënji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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