Kendon
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 916since 1959
Kendon over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kendon has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #3,293 | 34 |
| 2015 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five boys were named Kendon! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kendon is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kendon in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kendon
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,653 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,910)
- 3,211 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #8,910)
- 5,825 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1984 at #2,706 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 5 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 48,022
- Highest: 1 in 48,022 boys born in 2014 were named Kendon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,706 in 1984, was only 1 in 106,168 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 34.0% of all boys named Kendon (311) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,559 (1967) | #3,982 |
| 1970s | 24 | #3,521 (1970) | #4,990 |
| 1980s | 108 | #2,706 (1984) | #4,090 |
| 1990s | 133 | #3,591 (1999) | #4,890 |
| 2000s | 243 | #3,313 (2007) | #3,914 |
| 2010s | 311 | #2,885 (2014) | #3,518 |
| 2020s | 81 | #4,628 (2021) | #6,772 |
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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