Boy
Ken
Rooted in Gaelic, Ken is a boy's name that means "Gaelic Cináed, born of fire or handsome". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1960 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyShort for Kenneth
GaelicGaelic "Cináed" – "born of fire" or "handsome"
Births by decade
1900s
7
1910s
140
1920s
380
1930s
1,667
1940s
4,876
1950s
7,114
1960s
11,912
1970s
2,254
1980s
1,230
1990s
1,195
2000s
1,228
2010s
662
Peaked in the 1960s · 32,665 total U.S. births since 1900