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.
Where Kendell is popular in 1919
No state had 5 or more boys named Kendell in 1919, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1919
Top boys' names in 1919
More about 1919
boys
980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 196,024 of them was named Kendell, which outranked 13.3% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 642 names at #4,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.