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The first name 
Kenn

Kenn is a first name for boys.

Kenn – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Kenn has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Kenn. That means that a boy named Kenn is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kenn.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kenn

Kenn -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Kenn. Boys named Kenn have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,247 Kenn ranked higher than ever in 1958. By comparison, there have been 79 years in which the first name Kenn has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Kenn only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kenn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kenn -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Kenn is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Kenn can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Kenn. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Kenn living in one state or another. (If your name is Kenn and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kenn is in Pennsylvania, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Pennsylvania, only 0.00006% of all male residents are called Kenn – that’s just one in 1,769,206! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Kenn, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Kenn has 4 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.

With four letters, the name Kenn is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kenn

If your name is Kenn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kenn

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kenn, you can simply say:

Koala

Elephant

Nut

Nut

This is how the name Kenn is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kenn in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kenn

Kenn

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kenn

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kenn is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
E
N
N

Have you ever waved the name Kenn

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
E
N
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kenn sounds like this: