Kenyon

English

"white haired or blond"

Kenyon Origin and Meaning

The name Kenyon is a boy's name of English origin meaning "white haired or blond".

Kenyon is a very engaging British surname name, the middle y giving it a kind of southwestern canyonesque undertone.

Though Kenyon appears in English records as far back as the fourteenth century and arrived in America in the seventeenth, it sounds cooler these days than the more traditional Kenneth.

Kenyon has literary ties to the prestigious journal The Kenyon Review, originating from Ohio's Kenyon College, and sports enthusiasts will recognize it as the name of basketball star Kenyon Martin (nicknamed K-Mart), the first pick of the 2000 NBA draft, who plays for the LA Clippers.

Kenyon Rank in US Top 1000

# 921 in the US

Kenyon Popularity

• 1905 Nameberry 2021

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Famous People Named Kenyon

• Kenyon Octavia Coleman American football player
• Kenyon Lee Martin American Professional Basketball Player
• Kenyon Cox American painter
• Kenyon Edward Wright Scottish Episcopal priest and politician
• Kenyon Hopkins American composer
• (Maurice) Kenyon Taylor British electrical engineer and inventor
• Kenyon Jesse McMahon son of Shane McMahon of the WWE wrestling family
• Pieter Kenyon van der Byl South African and Rhodesian statesman
• Sherrilyn Kenyon author of the Dark Hunters Chronicles of Nick, The League, Lords of Avalon, Deadman's Cross, Hell,Hunters, Dream,Hunter, and Were,Hunter book series

Kenyon in Pop Culture

• Kenyon College school in Gambier, Ohio, USA