Boy
Kent
Rooted in Old English, Kent is a boy's name that means "Old English/Celtic place name". 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. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
Old EnglishOld English/Celtic place name
Etymology"Coastal district" or "border land"
Births by decade
1900s
55
1910s
388
1920s
1,087
1930s
3,122
1940s
8,352
1950s
18,726
1960s
19,333
1970s
6,757
1980s
5,019
1990s
2,901
2000s
1,612
2010s
1,143
Peaked in the 1960s · 68,495 total U.S. births since 1900