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Baby name
Kenneth
Boy
Origin of the name
Kenneth comes from a Scottish Gaelic name borne by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of the Scots and the Picts in the 9th century.
Classic name
1,283,974births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 14rank at its peak, in 1957
Where babies named Kenneth are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Kenneth is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Kenneth is most common in Wyoming (1.5 times), North Dakota (1.4) and Montana (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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