Kendi
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Last seen for boys in 2022 at #8,300
- Given to girls 96.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 18 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 644since 1962
Kendi over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Kendi has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | — | |
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| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | — | |
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| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five girls were named Kendi! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kendi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kendi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kendi
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 99 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #9,457)
- 2,828 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #9,457)
- 526 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1979 at #4,052 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 62,020
- Highest: 1 in 62,020 girls born in 2007 were named Kendi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,052 in 1979, was only 1 in 89,182 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 25.2% of all girls named Kendi (162) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #5,974 (1969) | #6,452 |
| 1970s | 89 | #4,052 (1979) | #6,009 |
| 1980s | 91 | #4,686 (1983) | #7,466 |
| 1990s | 88 | #6,264 (1993) | #8,573 |
| 2000s | 162 | #4,675 (2007) | #7,533 |
| 2010s | 131 | #5,785 (2018) | #8,918 |
| 2020s | 66 | #6,629 (2020) | #9,274 |
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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