Kaenan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-nun
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Kaenan is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
Where does Kaenan come from?
Modern: modern spelling, perhaps of Keenan or Kenan
Is Kaenan a girl's or a boy's name?
Kaenan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kaenan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Kaenan, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Kaenan in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 417 boys in the US were given Kaenan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #629, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Kaenan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
Names like Kaenan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Finnegan Keegan Declan Ronan Brecken Kellan Rayden Finn Brayden Kenan Braylen
Other spellings of Kaenan
Kanan Kanaan Kainen Cainan Kainan Kaynan Kanen Cainen Kainon Kaynen Cannan
Names related to Kaenan
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaenan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaenan, updated 20 October 2026.