Kenney is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Kenney
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Kenney

How popular is Kenney?

Kenney is common in United States.

Kenney is ranked 12337 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Kenney bearers increased by 2.096436 per cent in 2010 US census to 27759 since 2000, the surname slipped by 82 spots and ranked at 1266. The last name was found in around 94 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 87.17 89.07
Black 7.73 7.45
Hispanic or Latino 2.19 1.34
Others 1.97 1.39
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.66 0.49
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.27 0.27
Kenney is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Cayman Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 43074 people have been found who wears Kenney as their family name. Kenney is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
7,031 China6
9,053 Senegal5
929 Northern Mariana Islands5
607,991 Indonesia5
101,066 Zimbabwe5
32,695 Nigeria3
10,686 Costa Rica3
4,915 Panama3
32,086 Mexico3
108,034 Italy3
1,333 Guam2
19,093 Finland2
6,103 Cyprus2
8,657 Lebanon2
18,625 Japan2
9,185 Hong Kong2
147,165 Czech Republic2
65,594 Belgium2
41,879 Turkey2
21,529 Singapore2
1,136 Mali2
54,135 Philippines2
14,521 Portugal2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
1,819 Laos1
42,479 Greece1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
799 British Virgin Islands1
15,705 Cameroon1
6,820 Angola1
5,553 Taiwan1
34,581 Chile1
2,377 Marshall Islands1
13,447 Uganda1
118,015 Netherlands1
7,292 Vietnam1
1,254 Gibraltar1
510 East Timor1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
11,510 Oman1
7,895 South Korea1
50,549 Georgia1
40,340 Malaysia1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
11,510 Denmark49
28,564 Switzerland36
60,950 Spain28
5,663 Thailand18
406,964 Russia14
514,808 India14
646 Cayman Islands11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
7,768 New Zealand92
104,308 France86
12,440 United Arab Emirates76
5,450 Ireland60
18,409 Sweden51
Countries with hundreds of Kenney:
3,149 Ghana959
3,375 Australia914
9,471 South Africa676
10,157 Kenya471
23,918 Germany437
52,914 Brazil191
3,830 Scotland158
3,358 Wales113
Countries with thousands of Kenney:
1,810 Canada2,794
4,495 England1,651
Countries with ten thousands of Kenney:
1,122 United States34,086
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Bridget Kenney was 20 years old when she migrated to USA during Irish famine on March 28, 1846. She lived in Great Britain where she worked as farmer and took Siddons from Liverpool. Henry Kenney, aged 27, Spinster Mary Kenney, Biddy Kenney, aged 28, 25 years old Mary Kenney, Workman Peter-M. Kenney, 18 years old Nancy Kenney, 18 years old Ea. Kenney, Sewer Ellen Kenney, and 305 other Kenney around 53.01% of whom were workman while others worked as spinster and seamstress, servant, farmers &, laborers, mechanic, dressmaker, clerk migrated to US.

Kenney Namesakes

  • Ben Kenney, Musician
  • Richard R. Kenney, Former member of the U.S. Senate
  • Edward Aloysius Kenney, Member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Jason Kenney, Minister of National Defence
  • James Kenney, Actor
  • Beverly Kenney, Singer
  • Beverly Kenney, Singer
  • Dennis Kenney, Actor
  • June Kenney, Actress
  • Mart Kenney, Musician
  • Elizabeth Kenney, from 2020 0 film Raincatcher, who played N.
  • Aura Kenney played the main character of Megan Webster in 2011 drama, family movie Stand Strong.

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