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Kenna Kenna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEN-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Scottish Kenneth feminine"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "scottish kenneth feminine".

Kenna is from Cionaodh.

Scottish Kenneth feminine.

The name in its native script.

Cionaodh
Transliteration
Cionaodh
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kenna stands.

Kenna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kennas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kenneth I MacAlpin / first King of Scots
Scottish Gaelic feminine of Kenneth + Old Irish Cinaed fire-born + Kenneth I MacAlpin ~810-858 first King of Picts + Scots ~843 + Scottish royal + Gaelic naming ~1200 years
Scottish royalty

Names connected to Kenna.

The number behind Kenna.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kenna reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.