Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kenichi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 281
- 281 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 554 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kenichi’s family of names
In English usage, Kenichi was borrowed from the Japanese form けんいち.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kenichi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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