Kendell
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to boys 71.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1989 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,802since 1919
Kendell over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #8,362 | 12 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #2,846 | 42 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #2,386 | 54 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #3,134 | 53 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 | #1,780 | 81 |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 | #1,778 | 83 |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 | #1,684 | 84 |
| 2005 | #2,935 | 55 | #1,635 | 83 |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | #1,516 | 88 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 | #1,578 | 80 |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 | #1,357 | 97 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #1,368 | 93 |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 | #1,271 | 102 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #1,174 | 110 |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 | #1,322 | 90 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #1,182 | 101 |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 | #1,265 | 87 |
| 1995 | #2,309 | 57 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #2,142 | 63 | #1,168 | 95 |
| 1993 | #2,380 | 53 | #1,104 | 103 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 | #1,110 | 98 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | #990 | 117 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | #907 | 129 |
| 1989 | #3,045 | 35 | #898 | 127 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #1,058 | 88 |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 | #1,016 | 87 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #1,015 | 83 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #1,103 | 71 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | #1,107 | 65 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | #1,164 | 62 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #1,125 | 66 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #1,077 | 68 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #967 | 80 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | #1,100 | 59 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #1,238 | 47 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | #1,135 | 52 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 | #1,612 | 29 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #1,364 | 38 |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 | #1,091 | 56 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 | #1,238 | 45 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #1,198 | 43 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #1,131 | 44 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #1,198 | 39 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | #1,178 | 40 |
| 1965 | #3,149 | 16 | #1,206 | 40 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | #1,147 | 45 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #1,093 | 49 |
| 1962 | — | #1,403 | 31 | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #1,439 | 31 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #1,193 | 43 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #1,665 | 23 |
| 1958 | #2,581 | 20 | #1,321 | 34 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #1,634 | 24 |
| 1956 | — | #1,821 | 19 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,845 | 18 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,611 | 21 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,169 | 13 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,074 | 13 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #1,588 | 19 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kendell! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kendell
- 324 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,848)
- 1,002 spots since 2020 (#2,846 → #3,848)
- 1,462 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #3,848)
- Biggest jump: 301 spots in 1978 (#1,268 → #967)
- Biggest drop: 120 spots in 1992 (#990 → #1,110)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1989 at #898 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1989–1991
- Highest: 1 in 15,755 boys born in 1989 were named Kendell (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.7% of all boys named Kendell (1,040) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 28 | #3,741 (1925) | #3,976 |
| 1930s | 60 | #2,288 (1939) | #2,929 |
| 1940s | 116 | #1,588 (1941) | #2,183 |
| 1950s | 182 | #1,321 (1958) | #1,943 |
| 1960s | 405 | #1,093 (1963) | #1,219 |
| 1970s | 523 | #967 (1978) | #1,209 |
| 1980s | 772 | #898 (1989) | #1,081 |
| 1990s | 1,040 | #907 (1990) | #1,129 |
| 2000s | 895 | #1,271 (2000) | #1,557 |
| 2010s | 587 | #1,778 (2010) | #2,337 |
| 2020s | 189 | #2,846 (2020) | #3,611 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kendell in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 68,294 of them was named Kendell, which outranked 75.2% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,773Wynter28
- #3,773Yehudis28
- #3,773Yocheved28
- #3,866Kendell27
- #3,866Aisling27
- #3,866Aleasha27
- #3,866Alexxis27
- #3,968Adora26
- #3,968Adrien26
- #3,968Aleta26
Tied with 101 names at #3,866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 20,382 of them was named Kendell, which outranked 88.7% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,105Kodi99
- #1,105Mikhail99
- #1,105Ramsey99
- #1,110Kendell98
- #1,110Denny98
- #1,110Dontrell98
- #1,110Jonatan98
- #1,116Dangelo97
- #1,116Dedrick97
- #1,116Rickie97
Tied with 5 names at #1,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.