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Kenshin

Boy · KEN-shin · Japanese

Kenshin is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Kenshin mean?

Japanese: Japanese name; meaning depends on the kanji used

Uesugi Kenshin was a celebrated 16th-century Japanese warlord; the name is also known from the manga Rurouni Kenshin.

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KEN-shin

Is Kenshin a girl's or a boy's name?

Kenshin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kenshin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 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, 10 boys in the US were named Kenshin, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the boys named Kenshin in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 23 in 20032025
Kenshin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
20245#12,341
20239#8,250
202223#4,438
202110#7,582
202015#5,695
201917#5,336
201811#7,132
201717#5,293
201618#5,120
201511#7,061
201420#4,698
201320#4,619
201210#7,553
201113#6,250
201022#4,365
200916#5,551
200816#5,482
200721#4,491
20069#7,992
200522#4,057
200418#4,597
200323#3,727
20020–
20017#8,332

Nicknames for Kenshin

Names like Kenshin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Names related to Kenshin

Kenson

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