Kent Boy Name

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The name Kent is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a county in England. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kent has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kent**
Use of the Name Kent for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
66,200	45,747	8,638	1,891	751	191	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kent has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kent first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1891, which is the first year shown on the table. Kent last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 2003, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kent**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1891	808	7
1892
1893	801	8
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903	963	7
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908	918	10
1909	820	13
1910
1911	744	19
1912	953	23
1913	812	35
1914
1915	923	46
1916	803	59
1917	852	57
1918	915	53
1919	817	65
1920	678	89
1921	791	73
1922	659	96
1923	646	100
1924	693	89
1925	567	119
1926	550	123
1927	554	124
1928	539	128
1929	501	137
1930	458	168
1931	427	177
1932	388	208
1933	386	197
1934	348	250
1935	290	350
1936	256	436
1937	272	405
1938	265	434
1939	235	496
1940	217	578
1941	203	675
1942	211	718
1943	200	805
1944	200	744
1945	201	716
1946	194	887
1947	185	1,114
1948	194	1,024
1949	194	1,065
1950	180	1,230
1951	181	1,325
1952	164	1,612
1953	166	1,634
1954	167	1,725
1955	155	1,849
1956	149	2,133
1957	150	2,295
1958	144	2,400
1959	141	2,462
1960	147	2,402
1961	147	2,371
1962	136	2,578
1963	140	2,403
1964	146	2,244
1965	161	1,845
1966	171	1,567
1967	181	1,395
1968	194	1,218
1969	203	1,221
1970	216	1,151
1971	235	999
1972	254	783
1973	263	732
1974	312	587
1975	340	502
1976	338	508
1977	358	484
1978	345	498
1979	363	482
1980	356	496
1981	351	500
1982	338	555
1983	334	556
1984	342	547
1985	349	531
1986	391	466
1987	414	444
1988	420	459
1989	448	436
1990	488	394
1991	526	365
1992	528	366
1993	560	331
1994	598	301
1995	705	227
1996	650	256
1997	680	239
1998	723	227
1999	802	191
2000	769	215
2001	887	177
2002	948	168
2003	883	191
Totals:		66,200		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kent as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kent appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 97 times during the last 125 years.

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