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The name Kenton is of English origin, and means town of kings. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kenton 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 Kenton**
Use of the Name Kenton for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
7,243	5,744	2,669	581	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kenton has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kenton first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1931, which is the first year shown on the table. Kenton last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1998, 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 Kenton**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1931	963	47
1932
1933
1934
1935	993	41
1936	967	42
1937	937	45
1938
1939	915	47
1940
1941	970	44
1942	965	48
1943	788	69
1944	757	68
1945	824	58
1946	681	90
1947	719	91
1948	754	80
1949	692	98
1950	697	97
1951	610	132
1952	638	121
1953	638	125
1954	588	156
1955	615	145
1956	613	152
1957	626	149
1958	590	172
1959	621	155
1960	621	157
1961	670	136
1962	628	152
1963	597	174
1964	633	150
1965	654	130
1966	693	114
1967	678	121
1968	684	122
1969	744	111
1970	821	97
1971	763	116
1972	878	84
1973	863	85
1974	854	88
1975	867	92
1976	925	82
1977	878	93
1978	862	100
1979	885	98
1980	795	122
1981	841	109
1982	781	126
1983	718	144
1984	673	166
1985	760	136
1986	747	148
1987	753	147
1988	788	144
1989	807	150
1990	871	138
1991	846	151
1992	915	134
1993	933	133
1994	929	140
1995	873	156
1996	934	139
1997	935	144
1998	973	142
Totals:		7,243		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kenton 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 Kenton appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 63 times during the last 125 years.

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