Kennet
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kennet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Swedish, recorded as a male given name, a less common spelling of Kenneth.
- USUnited States1 in 475K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.3K
- DKDenmark1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,529 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Kennett (C) or East/West Kennett (W); first attested Nicholas de Kenette 1175 P (K)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kennet is read(measured from records)
Kennet is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
from Kennett (C) or East/West Kennett (W); first attested Nicholas de Kenette 1175 P (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kennet in Spanish.
- Danish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kennet in Danish.
- Swedish6.5%
a male given name, a less common spelling of Kenneth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kennet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 4,529 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.5K | Kennet | 45 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Kennet | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 818 | 1 in 7.2K | 818 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 701 | 1 in 475K | 674 | Kennet | 154 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kennet | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 328 | 1 in 17K | 485 | Kennet | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 281 | 1 in 19K | 1K | — | 20 |
| CR Costa Rica | #865 | 139 | 1 in 37K | 139 | Kennet | 14 |
4,529 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kennet is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, second-person plural subjunctive I of kennen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kennett Gibsonb. 1730GBnot in their usual nameEnglish antiquarian
- Kennet Luttib. 1944SESwedish journalist
- Bobby Beausoleilb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican criminal
- Kennet Klemetsb. 1964SESwedish writer
- Kennet Lundinb. 1964SESwedish biologist
- Frank Ørenb. 1965NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer (1965-2025)
- Kennet Anderssonb. 1967SESwedish footballer
- Kennet Kjenslib. 1969NONorwegian sprinter
- Kennet Larab. 1999CLChilean association football player (1999-)
- Kennet Eichhornb. 2009DEGerman footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #31,929 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kennet mean?
- In Swedish, a male given name, a less common spelling of Kenneth
- Is Kennet a male or female name?
- Kennet 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.
- What are other forms of the name Kennet?
- In the etymology graph, Kenneth, Kenny and Kennith are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kennet have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Kennet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kennet.
- Where is Kennet most common?
- Kennet is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kennet?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4,529 people named Kennet, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Kennet compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Kennet is the 865th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kennetThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kennet” — the 865th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.