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The first name 
Kent

Kent is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Kent is a well-known but special name!

Kent is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1191 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,190 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 64,136 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kent. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

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

Kent -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Kent may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Kent is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 474 men in Utah is called Kent. In total, that’s 2,875 people who feel addressed when the name Kent is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #125 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Kent as the answer a total of 64,136 times. This places Kent at #374 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Kent as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent

If your name is Kent 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 Kent

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

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This is how the name Kent 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 Kent in Braille?

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

Kent

Kent

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

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T

Have you ever waved the name Kent

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.

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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. Kent sounds like this: