Kenna is the Irish and Scottish feminine form of Kenneth, an anglicized form of both Gaelic Coinneach and Cináed. These names mean ‘handsome’ and ‘fire-born’.
Kenna is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kenna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kenna ranks 661. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kenna. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kenna.
Kenna is the Irish and Scottish feminine form of Kenneth, an anglicized form of both Gaelic Coinneach and Cináed. These names mean ‘handsome’ and ‘fire-born’.
Kenna is also... a common surname in English-speaking countries.
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 girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Kenna is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 7.5% of all girls' 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 girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kenna 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kenna, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kenna
Kenna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
E
N
N
A
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
A
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. Kenna sounds like this:
