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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ken

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#3,277

up +31 places

2025 births

36

unchanged births

All-time births

33,013

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
1,775 births
Best rank
#177
in 1960
First recorded
1900
#1,112 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1963
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
117 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19601,775#177Peak
  2. 19621,684#181
  3. 19611,665#188
  4. 19591,653#182
  5. 19631,634#178

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #177 in 1960 · peak births 1,775 in 1960

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

33,013 boys · 30 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ken has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.