Kendal
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 66.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 565 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,123since 1951
Kendal over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,249 | 48 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #3,014 | 55 | #4,002 | 27 |
| 2022 | #2,639 | 66 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 | #2,980 | 39 |
| 2019 | #2,090 | 90 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #2,200 | 86 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #1,567 | 142 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #1,258 | 194 | #2,528 | 49 |
| 2014 | #1,125 | 225 | #2,461 | 51 |
| 2013 | #1,062 | 234 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #852 | 313 | #1,909 | 75 |
| 2011 | #784 | 346 | #1,866 | 75 |
| 2010 | #886 | 299 | #1,612 | 97 |
| 2009 | #783 | 361 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #815 | 352 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #911 | 298 | #1,912 | 74 |
| 2006 | #818 | 333 | #1,724 | 81 |
| 2005 | #664 | 417 | #1,752 | 75 |
| 2004 | #513 | 565 | #1,477 | 92 |
| 2003 | #702 | 373 | #1,739 | 70 |
| 2002 | #795 | 295 | #1,372 | 96 |
| 2001 | #1,014 | 211 | #1,452 | 85 |
| 2000 | #1,006 | 210 | #1,341 | 95 |
| 1999 | #991 | 207 | #1,329 | 90 |
| 1998 | #878 | 240 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #946 | 210 | #1,274 | 90 |
| 1996 | #916 | 214 | #990 | 126 |
| 1995 | #842 | 232 | #1,010 | 121 |
| 1994 | #766 | 268 | #927 | 140 |
| 1993 | #857 | 225 | #918 | 137 |
| 1992 | #1,499 | 105 | #1,017 | 115 |
| 1991 | #1,463 | 108 | #967 | 121 |
| 1990 | #1,356 | 117 | #887 | 135 |
| 1989 | #1,426 | 104 | #940 | 117 |
| 1988 | #1,269 | 115 | #1,083 | 84 |
| 1987 | #1,064 | 144 | #1,030 | 85 |
| 1986 | #1,150 | 124 | #1,075 | 75 |
| 1985 | #1,382 | 93 | #1,116 | 69 |
| 1984 | #1,075 | 130 | #1,228 | 56 |
| 1983 | #1,629 | 68 | #1,120 | 64 |
| 1982 | #1,807 | 60 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | #1,324 | 50 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 | #1,319 | 49 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | #1,272 | 50 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | #1,450 | 40 |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | #1,390 | 41 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | #1,378 | 40 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | #1,335 | 41 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 | #1,201 | 47 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 | #1,196 | 47 |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 | #1,235 | 45 |
| 1970 | #2,240 | 35 | #1,178 | 49 |
| 1969 | #3,199 | 18 | #1,231 | 41 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | #1,100 | 46 |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | #1,231 | 37 |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | #1,194 | 39 |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | #1,386 | 31 |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | #1,199 | 41 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #1,027 | 54 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #1,279 | 37 |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | #1,467 | 30 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | #1,273 | 38 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | #1,182 | 43 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | #1,237 | 39 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | #1,250 | 39 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | #1,443 | 29 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #1,538 | 25 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #1,435 | 28 |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #1,701 | 20 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #1,553 | 23 |
| 1950 | — | #1,701 | 19 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,817 | 17 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,786 | 18 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,813 | 16 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,697 | 16 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,182 | 12 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,478 | 9 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1951
The first year at least five girls were named Kendal! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 326 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #3,249)
- 908 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #3,249)
- 1,991 spots since 2015 (#1,258 → #3,249)
- Biggest jump: 642 spots in 1993 (#1,499 → #857)
- Biggest drop: 210 spots in 2013 (#852 → #1,062)
Rise & fade · girls
53 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2004 at #513 (565 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2002–2012
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,250
- Highest: 1 in 3,250 girls born in 2004 were named Kendal (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,485 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 37.4% of all girls named Kendal (3,415) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1993
- Mostly boys until 1992, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 68 | #3,379 (1958) | #4,600 |
| 1960s | 158 | #2,605 (1965) | #3,329 |
| 1970s | 267 | #1,937 (1971) | #2,938 |
| 1980s | 906 | #1,064 (1987) | #1,619 |
| 1990s | 1,926 | #766 (1994) | #1,051 |
| 2000s | 3,415 | #513 (2004) | #802 |
| 2010s | 2,028 | #784 (2011) | #1,380 |
| 2020s | 355 | #2,341 (2020) | #2,896 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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