Gender:
Origin:
Gaelic
1942 famous people named Kenneth found on Wikipedia.
1274267 male, 5335 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
226-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
13-th in year 1939
Used in: Danish, English, Norwegian, Scottish, Swedish
A male given name: from an Irish word meaning “handsome.”.
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: Cainnech and Cináed. The modern Gaelic form of Cainnech is Coinneach; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely". The name Cinaed is partly derived from the Celtic *aidhu, meaning "fire". A short form of Kenneth is Ken or Kenn. A pet form of Kenneth is Kenny.
Masc. proper name, Scottish, from Gaelic Caioneach, literally "handsome, comely."
Loyal, handsome and born of Fire.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Kenneth Branagh | 1960 | British actor, screenwriter, film director and producer |
2 | Kenneth Lay | 1942 | Former chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation |
3 | Kenneth Choi | 1971 | American actor |
4 | Kenneth Williams | 1926 | English actor and comedian |
5 | Kenneth Lonergan | 1962 | American film director and writer |
6 | Kenneth C. Griffin | 1968 | American hedge fund manager |
7 | Kenneth Clarke | 1940 | British Conservative politician |
8 | Kenneth Copeland | 1936 | American televangelist |
9 | Kenneth Mars | 1935 | American actor |
10 | Kenneth More | 1914 | English film and stage actor |
11 | Kenneth Bae | 1968 | American missionary held as prisoner in North Korea |
12 | Kenneth Faried | 1989 | American professional basketball player |
13 | Kenneth Bianchi | 1951 | Serial killer |
14 | Kenneth Connor | 1918 | English actor |
15 | Kenneth Cranham | 1944 | Scottish actor |
16 | Kenneth Anger | 1927 | Film director, author |
17 | Kenneth O'Donnell | 1924 | American political aide |
18 | Kenneth McGriff | 1960 | American drug trafficker |
19 | Kenneth Arrow | 1921 | American economist |
20 | Kenneth Erwin Hagin | 1917 | American theologian |
21 | Kenneth Noye | 1947 | English criminal |
22 | Kenneth Parcell | ||
23 | Kenneth O'Keefe | 1969 | Irish-American political activist |
24 | Kenneth Washington | 1946 | American actor |
25 | Kenneth Kaunda | 1924 | First President of Zambia |
26 | Kenneth MacAlpin | 0810 | King of the Picts |
27 | Kenneth Welsh | 1942 | Canadian actor |
28 | Kenneth Cole | 1954 | American clothing designer |
29 | Kenneth Chenault | 1951 | American business executive |
30 | Kenneth Langone | 1935 | American businessman |
31 | Kenneth Parnell | 1931 | American sex offender |
32 | Kenneth D. Taylor | 1934 | Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman |
33 | Kenneth Fisher | 1950 | American investment analyst |
34 | Kenneth Omeruo | 1993 | Nigerian footballer |
35 | Kenneth I. Starr | 1943 | American fraudster |
36 | Kenneth Clark | 1903 | Art historian, broadcaster and museum director |
37 | Kenneth Lieberthal | 1943 | American political scientist |
38 | Kenneth Waltz | 1924 | American political scientist and international relations theoretician |
39 | Kenneth Ma | 1974 | Hong Kong actor |
40 | Kenneth Tobey | 1917 | American actor |
41 | Kenneth Mitchell | 1974 | Actor |
42 | Kenneth Grahame | 1859 | British novelist |
43 | Kenneth II of Scotland | 0954 | King of Alba |
44 | Kenneth McDuff | 1946 | American criminal |
45 | Kenneth Bigley | 1942 | British civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004 |
46 | Kenneth III of Scotland | 1000 | King of Alba |
47 | Kenneth Cope | 1931 | British actor |
48 | Kenneth Tynan | 1927 | Writer, theatre critic |
49 | Kenneth Burke | 1897 | American philosopher |
50 | Kenneth McMillan | 1932 | American actor |
51 | Kenneth P. Thompson | 1966 | American lawyer |
52 | Kenneth Erskine | 1963 | British serial killer |
53 | Kenneth Dixon | 1994 | |
54 | Kenneth M. Taylor | 1919 | World War II pilot and flying Ace |
55 | Kenneth Zohore | 1994 | Footballer |
56 | Kenneth Colley | 1937 | British actor |
57 | Kenneth Vermeer | 1986 | Dutch footballer |
58 | Kenneth Rogoff | 1953 | Economist and chess player |
59 | Kenneth Gärdestad | 1948 | Swedish architect |
60 | Kenneth Tsang | 1938 | Hong Kong actor |
61 | Kenneth Waller | 1927 | English actor |
62 | Kenneth Frazier | 1954 | American businessman |
63 | Kenneth Halliwell | 1926 | Actor, writer |
64 | Kenneth Feinberg | 1945 | American lawyer |
65 | Kenneth Griffith | 1921 | Welsh actor |
66 | Kenneth Mapp | 1955 | Is an American politician who is the 29th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. |
67 | Kenneth Anderson | 1910 | British writer and hunter |
68 | Kenneth Horne | 1907 | Comedian and businessman |
69 | Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking | 1934 | British politician |
70 | Kenneth Haigh | 1931 | British actor |
71 | Kenneth Dart | 1955 | American businessman |
72 | Kenneth G. Wilson | 1936 | Physicist |
73 | Kenneth Grant | 1924 | British occult writer |
74 | Kenneth E. Boulding | 1910 | British-American economist |
75 | Kenneth H. Cooper | 1931 | American exercise instructor |
76 | Kenneth Duberstein | 1944 | American lobbyist and businessman |
77 | Kenneth Goldsmith | 1961 | American writer |
78 | Kenneth Noland | 1924 | American artist |
79 | Kenneth Lerer | American businessman | |
80 | Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet | 1923 | Canadian businessman |
81 | Kenneth Roth | 1955 | American human rights activist |
82 | Kenneth Jeyaretnam | 1959 | Singaporean politician |
83 | Kenneth Tigar | 1942 | American actor |
84 | Kenneth Johnson | 1942 | American sci-fi writer and producer |
85 | Kenneth Rexroth | 1905 | American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector |
86 | Kenneth R. Miller | 1948 | American biologist |
87 | Kenneth Oppel | 1967 | Canadian children's writer |
88 | Kenneth Arnold | 1915 | American aviator and businessman |
89 | Kenneth Weishuhn | 1997 | American teenager who is known for his suicide as a result of bullying for being a gay youth. |
90 | Kenneth Kendall | 1924 | British newsreader |
91 | Kenneth Feld | 1948 | American businessman |
92 | Kenneth Medrano | 1991 | |
93 | Kenneth E. Iverson | 1920 | Canadian computer scientist |
94 | Kenneth Marshall | 1950 | American actor |
95 | Kenneth M. Curtis | 1931 | American diplomat |
96 | Kenneth Turan | 1946 | American film critic |
97 | Kenneth Kluivert | ||
98 | Kenneth Zucker | 1950 | American sexologist |
99 | Kenneth Wolstenholme | 1920 | Association football commentator |
100 | Peter Kenneth | 1965 | Politician |
101 | Kenneth Nichols | 1907 | United States Army officer and engineer |
102 | Kenneth Jay Lane | 1930 | American fashion designer |
103 | Kenneth Roberts | 1885 | American writer |
104 | Kenneth MacMillan | 1929 | British ballet dancer and choreographer |
105 | Kenneth Keating | 1900 | American politician |
106 | Kenneth Brumley | 1968 | One of the Worlds heaviest people |
107 | Kenneth H. Dahlberg | 1917 | American World War II flying ace and businessman |
108 | Kenneth E. Tovo | 1961 | American officer |
109 | Kenneth Grange | 1929 | British industrial designer |
110 | Kenneth Frampton | 1930 | Architecture critic and historian (b.1980) |
111 | Kenneth M. Jacobs | 1958 | American businessman |
112 | Kenneth Bainbridge | 1904 | American physicist |
113 | Kenneth Acker | 1992 | |
114 | Kenneth Hall | 1935 | Player of American and Canadian football |
115 | Kenneth Calman | 1941 | British cancer researcher |
116 | Kenneth A. Jackson | 1957 | American businessman |
117 | Kenneth Koch | 1925 | American poet, playwright, and professor |
118 | Kenneth J. Gergen | 1935 | American psychologist |
119 | Kenneth Patchen | 1911 | American writer and poet |
120 | Kenneth J. Alford | 1881 | British composer of marches for band |
121 | Kenneth MacKenna | 1899 | American stage actor |
122 | Kenneth P. Moritsugu | 1945 | American physician |
123 | Kenneth I. Juster | 1954 | American businessman |
124 | Kenneth Nelson | 1930 | Actor |
125 | Kenneth Vogel | ||
126 | Kenneth MacDonald | 1901 | Actor |
127 | Kenneth Duremdes | 1974 | Filipino basketball player |
128 | Kenneth Claiborne Royall | 1894 | United States general |
129 | Kenneth Cobonpue | 1968 | Furniture Designer |
130 | Kenneth French | 1954 | American economist |
131 | Kenneth J. Gray | 1924 | American politician |
132 | Kenneth Price | 1935 | American ceramic artist and printmaker |
133 | Kenneth A. Kitchen | 1932 | British egyptologist |
134 | Kenneth Hawks | 1898 | American film director |
135 | Kenneth T. Jackson | 1939 | American historian |
136 | Kenneth Walker | 1898 | United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient |
137 | Kenneth Widmerpool | ||
138 | Kenneth McClintock | 1957 | American politician |
139 | Kenneth Preston | 1957 | US Army soldier |
140 | Kenneth Snelson | 1927 | American artist |
141 | Kenneth Ascher | 1944 | American musician |
142 | Kenneth Hahn | 1920 | American politician |
143 | Kenneth Scott Latourette | 1884 | American historian |
144 | Kenneth Ham | 1964 | American astronaut and a Captain in the United States Navy |
145 | Kenneth Michael Trentadue | 1950 | Suspicious death in custody |
146 | Kenneth Biros | 1958 | American murderer |
147 | Kenneth M. Stampp | 1912 | American historian |
148 | Kenneth Matiba | 1932 | Kenyan politician |
149 | Kenneth Sims | 1959 | All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive lineman, defensive end |
150 | Kenneth Ehrlich | 1943 | American television producer |
151 | Kenneth Perez | 1974 | Danish footballer |
152 | Kenneth Kimmins | 1941 | American actor |
153 | Kenneth L. Hale | 1934 | American linguist |
154 | Kenneth Slessor | 1901 | Australian poet and journalist |
155 | Garry Kenneth | 1987 | Footballer |
156 | Kenneth Pomeranz | 1958 | American historian |
157 | Kenneth Rocafort | 1977 | Comic artist |
158 | Kenneth Newman | 1926 | British Chief Constable |
159 | Kenneth Dover | 1920 | British classical scholar |
160 | Kenneth Adelman | 1946 | Diplomat; writer; historian |
161 | Kenneth D. Bailey | 1910 | United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient |
162 | Kenneth Stewart Cole | 1900 | American biophysicist |
163 | Kenneth Foster | 1976 | American murderer |
164 | Kenneth Good | 1942 | American anthropologist |
165 | Kenneth A. Gibson | 1932 | American mayor |
166 | Kenneth L. Wainstein | 1962 | American lawyer |
167 | Kenneth Appel | 1932 | American mathematician |
168 | Kenneth Littlejohn | British armed robber | |
169 | Kenneth O. Morgan | 1934 | British historian |
170 | Kenneth Dunkin | 1974 | American politician |
171 | Kenneth Binmore | 1940 | British economist |
172 | Kenneth Harlan | 1895 | Actor |
173 | Kenneth Minimah | 1959 | Nigerian general |
174 | Kenneth C. Davis | 1954 | American historian |
175 | Kenneth Pollack | 1966 | CIA analyst |
176 | Kenneth Berry | 1925 | SS-Mann in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World War |
177 | Kenneth Rayment | 1921 | |
178 | Kenneth R. Shadrick | 1931 | US Army soldier |
179 | Kenneth N. Stevens | 1981 | American phonetician |
180 | Kenneth Allen | 1942 | American convicted murderer |
181 | Kenneth Michael Kays | 1949 | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient |
182 | Kenneth R. Andrews | 1916 | Business scholar |
183 | Kenneth Ives | 1934 | British actor and director |
184 | Kenneth Gant | 1967 | American football player |
185 | Kenneth Lee Pike | 1912 | American linguist |
186 | Kenneth Minihan | 1943 | United States general |
187 | Kenneth Bacon | 1944 | American journalist |
188 | Kenneth Rush | 1910 | American diplomat |
189 | Kenneth Lin | ||
190 | Kenneth Farrow | 1993 | |
191 | Kenneth Leighton | 1929 | British composer and pianist |
192 | Kenneth Davis | 1948 | Basketball player |
193 | Kenneth Cooper Alexander | 1966 | Virginia politician |
194 | Kenneth Ulman | 1974 | American politician |
195 | Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock | 1907 | British judge |
196 | Kenneth A. Walsh | 1916 | United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient |
197 | Kenneth Allsop | 1920 | Broadcaster, author and naturalist |
198 | Kenneth Dougall | 1993 | Australian soccer player |
199 | Kenneth Macksey | 1923 | British historian |
200 | Kenneth Darby | 1982 | Player of American football |