Kendale

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Peak · boys
1990 · 35 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
981
since 1963

Kendale over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #6,788, 1987peak #2,086, 1990girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#8,9108
2024—#9,8947
2023—#9,7637
2022—#8,9908
2021—#7,58710
2020—#9,5547
2019—#8,2159
2018—#5,32017
2017—#6,33813
2016—#7,15711
2015—#5,99914
2014—#5,99714
2013—#5,17117
2012—#6,00114
2011#13,3477#4,98318
2010#16,9925#6,35913
2009—#4,58221
2008—#5,48716
2007—#4,99618
2006—#4,22322
2005—#6,63411
2004—#5,00716
2003—#3,36627
2002#13,5956#3,67023
2001—#2,74234
2000#15,0315#4,78515
1999—#2,79530
1998—#3,39022
1997—#3,16023
1996#11,8076#2,21837
1995—#2,76226
1994#7,60411#2,34733
1993—#2,39931
1992—#2,53228
1991—#2,46928
1990—#2,08635
1989—#2,20631
1988#11,7985#2,86019
1987#6,78810#2,27225
1986—#2,51021
1985—#2,35722
1984—#3,10714
1983—#3,63011
1982—#3,10814
1981—#3,41212
1980—#4,1349
1979—#2,66917
1978—#4,5547
1977—#2,79115
1976—#3,26411
1975—#3,9418
1974—#3,31810
1973—#3,6948
1972—#4,9865
1971—#3,9637
1970—#4,2306
1969—#3,0629
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1966—#3,9485
1965—#3,2447
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five boys were named Kendale! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Kendale is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Kendale in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kendale
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 984 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,910)
  • 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
  • 2,911 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 1990 at #2,086 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 2000, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 51,197
  • Highest: 1 in 51,197 boys born in 1996 were named Kendale (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,086 in 1990, was only 1 in 58,687 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 29.9% of all boys named Kendale (293) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s26#3,062 (1969)#3,576
1970s94#2,669 (1979)#3,741
1980s178#2,206 (1989)#2,960
1990s293#2,086 (1990)#2,616
2000s203#2,742 (2001)#4,549
2010s140#4,983 (2011)#6,154
2020s47#7,587 (2021)#9,116

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.

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