Kenth
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kenth is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, a less common spelling of Kent.
- PHPhilippines1 in 70K◐
- SESweden1 in 2K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 40K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.6K ●
- Sources
- 69 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 8 countries
2.5K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, a less common spelling of Kent
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 5,166△ | 293 rec. | 1 in 2K | 5.2K | Kenth | 54 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,379 | 675 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 35 |
| US United States | — | 173 | 806 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 173 | Kenth | 69 |
| DK Denmark | — | 136△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 43K | 136 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 91△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 61K | 143 | Kenth | 8 |
| PE Peru | — | 84 | 66 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 10 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 48 | 50 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 39 | 137 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 35 | 31 rec. | — | 368 | Kenth | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | 30 | 37 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 23 | 33 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 20 | 16 rec. | — | — | Kenth | 16 |
Roughly 5.2K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.3K28%
- Spanish1.5K18%
- Swedish1.3K15%
- Danish81310%
- Finnish6918%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,307 | 28% |
| Spanish | 1,515 | 18% |
| Swedish | 1,261 | 15% |
| Danish | 813 | 10% |
| Finnish | 691 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 3,336 |
| 2000 | 3,307 |
| 2001 | 3,285 |
| 2002 | 3,250 |
| 2003 | 3,215 |
| 2004 | 3,195 |
| 2005 | 3,164 |
| 2006 | 3,139 |
| 2007 | 3,131 |
| 2008 | 3,111 |
| 2009 | 3,092 |
| 2010 | 3,072 |
| 2011 | 3,055 |
| 2012 | 3,045 |
| 2013 | 3,021 |
| 2014 | 2,995 |
| 2015 | 2,973 |
| 2016 | 2,937 |
| 2017 | 2,918 |
| 2018 | 2,881 |
| 2019 | 2,845 |
| 2020 | 2,802 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kenth Skårvikb. 1935SESwedish politician (1935-2018)
- Kenth Högströmb. 1952SESwedish politician
- Kenth Skogsvikb. 1954SESwedish economist
- Kenth Eldebrinkb. 1955SESwedish javelin thrower
- Kenth Hultqvistb. 1958SESwedish bandy player
- Kenth Olssonb. 1958SESwedish historian
- Kenth Åkermanb. 1965SESwedish writer
- Magnus Jacobssonb. 1968SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Kenth Engø-Monsenb. 2000NOresearcher
- Kenth Fjellborgmusher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.2K | #599 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 3.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 3.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 3.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 3.1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kenth?
- We estimate roughly 5.6 thousand people bear Kenth (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kenth have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.2 thousand people bear Kenth in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kenth.
- Where is Kenth most common?
- Kenth is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Kenth compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Kenth is the 369th most common given name of 789 given names recorded there.
- Is Kenth a male or female name?
- Kenth is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kenth mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, a less common spelling of Kent
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kenth” — the 369th most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.