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

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Peak · boys
1989 · 127 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,802
since 1919

Kendell over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #2,001, 1971peak #898, 1989girlsboys
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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#8,36212#3,84828
2024#8,94611#3,52432
2023#12,1977#3,34735
2022#8,54212#4,08926
2021#8,46412#4,01126
2020#6,32518#2,84642
2019#5,30624#2,49153
2018#5,78521#3,24035
2017#6,28719#2,79843
2016#5,28425#2,43752
2015#4,98127#2,38654
2014#4,00337#2,17562
2013#3,51344#2,18260
2012#3,13453#2,10464
2011#3,09254#1,78081
2010#4,10736#1,77883
2009#3,04756#1,82581
2008#4,00639#1,504108
2007#3,24752#1,83079
2006#2,77863#1,68484
2005#2,93555#1,63583
2004#2,30975#1,51688
2003#2,84054#1,57880
2002#3,14645#1,35797
2001#3,41739#1,36893
2000#2,63256#1,271102
1999#3,24539#1,174110
1998#2,16466#1,32290
1997#2,87442#1,182101
1996#2,51050#1,26587
1995#2,30957#1,069110
1994#2,14263#1,16895
1993#2,38053#1,104103
1992#3,86627#1,11098
1991#3,30133#990117
1990#3,52330#907129
1989#3,04535#898127
1988#4,01522#1,05888
1987#2,49341#1,01687
1986#2,84533#1,01583
1985#3,62123#1,10371
1984#2,47038#1,15462
1983#4,28617#1,10765
1982#3,64722#1,16462
1981#4,16218#1,12566
1980#3,21526#1,16661
1979#6,18910#1,07768
1978#4,45915#96780
1977#4,94213#1,26849
1976#4,90512#1,10059
1975#7,1737#1,23847
1974#3,86316#1,13552
1973#3,78716#1,61229
1972#3,71416#1,36438
1971#2,00142#1,09156
1970#3,71216#1,23845
1969#6,6176#1,19843
1968#4,22211#1,13144
1967#6,0426#1,19839
1966#3,74012#1,17840
1965#3,14916#1,20640
1964#4,6369#1,14745
1963#6,5925#1,09349
1962—#1,40331
1961#4,8828#1,43931
1960#4,7738#1,19343
1959#5,0317#1,66523
1958#2,58120#1,32134
1957#6,0865#1,63424
1956—#1,82119
1955—#1,84518
1954—#2,31612
1953—#1,76519
1952—#2,25112
1951—#2,49510
1950—#2,32111
1949—#1,94115
1948—#1,61121
1947—#2,16913
1946—#2,9197
1945—#2,00912
1944—#2,4679
1943—#2,07413
1942——
1941—#1,58819
1940—#2,8717
1939—#2,28810
1938—#2,6468
1937—#2,4799
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1935—#2,9517
1934—#3,6795
1933—#3,2686
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1930—#3,0228
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1925—#3,7416
1924—#3,8676
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1920—#3,8156
1919—#4,1685
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First appearance
1919

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
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
70 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1919
  • Peaked 1989 at #898 (127 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1989–1991
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,755
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 21.7% of all boys named Kendell (1,040) 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
1910s5#4,168 (1919)#4,168
1920s28#3,741 (1925)#3,976
1930s60#2,288 (1939)#2,929
1940s116#1,588 (1941)#2,183
1950s182#1,321 (1958)#1,943
1960s405#1,093 (1963)#1,219
1970s523#967 (1978)#1,209
1980s772#898 (1989)#1,081
1990s1,040#907 (1990)#1,129
2000s895#1,271 (2000)#1,557
2010s587#1,778 (2010)#2,337
2020s189#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

boys
#4,168
5 births · 1 in 196,024 boys

Top boys' names in 1919

  1. #1John53,522
  2. #2William43,969
  3. #3James42,392
  4. #4Robert41,025
  5. #5Charles25,192
  6. #6George25,170
  7. #7Joseph24,266
  8. #8Edward18,536
  9. #9Frank15,701
  10. #10Thomas13,434
  11. #4,168Kendell5
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).

Ranked beside Kendell
  1. #3,736Zelma6
  2. #3,736Zigmunt6
  3. #3,736Zora6
  4. #4,168Kendell5
  5. #4,168Aarne5
  6. #4,168Able5
  7. #4,168Alba5

Tied with 642 names at #4,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. ↑ 446Quinten#1,313 → #867
  2. ↑ 432Dempsey#1,012 → #580
  3. ↑ 341Winton#1,231 → #890
  4. ↑ 334Donnie#1,211 → #877
  5. ↑ 332Edsel#1,062 → #730
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,008Foch#869 → #2,877
  2. ↓ 582Carmel#949 → #1,531
  3. ↓ 403Eligah#918 → #1,321
  4. ↓ 398Nels#809 → #1,207
  5. ↓ 355Myer#966 → #1,321

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1919 →