Keñny
surname · Latin script
Keñny is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 51,666 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Kenneth + -y (diminutive form). Keñny is also written 케니 in Korean (Hangul) and เคนนย in Thai.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.1K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keñny itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 541 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
51,666 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Keñny in other scripts: Korean (Hangul) and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kenny in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and 5 more and Kenney in SE Sweden.
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)From Kenneth + -y (diminutive form).
Cited for this meaning 8
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keñny 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #696 | 51,666 | 1 in 6.4K | 51K | Kenny | 541 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Kenny | 95 |
| MY Malaysia | #709 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kenny | 115 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kenny | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | #669 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Kenny | 266 |
| HK Hong Kong | #465 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Kenny | 78 |
| BE Belgium | #714 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 43 | Kenny | 117 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,118 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | Kenney | 71 |
| SG Singapore | #229 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Kenny | 130 |
51,666 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keñny mean, and where does it come from?
- From Kenneth + -y (diminutive form). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Keñny?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Keñny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenny. After it come Nigeria, Malaysia, Philippines and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Keñny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,666 people named Keñny in 2020, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Keñny compared with other names?
- In the United States, Keñny is the 696th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ke%C3%B1nyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Keñny” — ranked 875th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.