Kenrick
Masculine · “Old English cyne and ric”
King means one of the kindred. The Old English cyning is built on cyn, the kin, so the word defines a ruler by descent rather than by power, and the cyne- at the front of Kenrick is the same element.
How old is the name Kenrick?
Kenrick first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Kenrick alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,200 people named Kenrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kenrick most popular?
Kenrick peaked in 1974, reaching #1832 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 8,863 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cyneric to Kenrick
The story of Kenrick
Germanic kingship was a matter of descent and consent rather than of appointment, and the vocabulary shows it: cyning, the ancestor of king, is formed from cyn, the kin or the people, with a suffix meaning belonging to, so the word means something like the man of the kindred. The related adjective cyne, royal, appears at the front of a set of Old English names, Cyneric, Cynewulf, Cyneburg, and it survived into the surnames Kenrick and Kendrick. The second element, ric, means power and is the same word that stands at the end of Frederick and Roderick and behind German Reich. A separate Welsh name, Cynwrig, was anglicized to the same spelling, so Kenrick has two possible origins and one form.
Meaningscholars disagree
Old English cyne and ric, royal power
Kenrick renders Old English Cyneric, from cyne, royal, and ric, power or rule, and also the Welsh Cynwrig, of separate origin. The element cyne is related to cyn, kindred, the root behind king. The American peak is 1974.
How the name formed
- Cyneric
- Kenrick
Related forms: Kendrick · Cynwrig
Pronouncing Kenrick
KEN-rik
Two syllables, stress on the first. Kenrick and Kendrick differ by one consonant and are regularly confused.
Nicknames for Kenrick
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1945
- Most boys named
- 200332 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1832reached in 1974
- Change vs 2022
- −45.5%6 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kenrick in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kendrick in English — related form
- Cynwrig in Welsh — related form
Kenricks among us
people named Kenrick are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Kenrick
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amando test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kenrick's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amando climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amando's path sketches the road Kenrick is walking now.
Kenrick sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Kenrick beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kenrick in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ken and Rick are two complete names inside one.
- Both elements are documented Old English.
- Two syllables with a firm consonant frame.
- Kendrick is more common and will be substituted.
- Two unrelated originals lie behind the spelling.
- The 1974 peak dates its American use.
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Masculine · #10695 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kenricks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Kenrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kenrick in 2025?
- Kenrick ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kenrick?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Kenrick — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kenrick with classmates?
- Kenrick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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