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The first name 
Kenzo

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

Kenzo is a common name for boys!

The name Kenzo 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 boys names, Kenzo ranks 791. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Kenzo. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kenzo.

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

Kenzo -
keeping with the times

Kenzo is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kenzo cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #481 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kenzo, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kenzo seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

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

Kenzo -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Kenzo, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to men and boys named Kenzo. (To be fair, 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 entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Kenzo living in one state or another. If your name is Kenzo and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Hawaii, which has the most people named Kenzo relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,073 men and boys their names before you hear Kenzo as an answer just once.

Kenzo has 5 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 five letters, the name Kenzo 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 7.9% 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 Kenzo

If your name is Kenzo 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 Kenzo

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

Koala

Elephant

Nut

Zebra

Orange

This is how the name Kenzo 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 Kenzo in Braille?

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

Kenzo

Kenzo

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
E
N
Z
O

Have you ever waved the name Kenzo

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
Z
O

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. Kenzo sounds like this: