Kendyl
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,098since 1963
Kendyl over time
Rank among girls' names. Kendyl has never cracked the top 900 here.
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 | #4,172 | 34 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,751 | 62 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #2,043 | 93 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #2,179 | 86 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #1,465 | 157 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 182 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #1,134 | 221 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #1,046 | 236 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #966 | 264 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #985 | 260 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #1,082 | 230 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,040 | 250 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #1,117 | 231 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,322 | 184 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,222 | 197 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,168 | 197 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,082 | 212 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,284 | 162 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,558 | 120 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #1,573 | 118 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,310 | 145 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,654 | 100 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,481 | 115 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,449 | 114 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,510 | 106 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,466 | 109 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #1,408 | 114 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #1,495 | 106 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #1,855 | 76 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kendyl! It came in at #5,891, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kendyl is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#432 · 1 in 2,303
- Utah#554 · 1 in 3,117
- Pennsylvania#843 · 1 in 7,283
- Michigan#885 · 1 in 7,423
- Texas#1,228 · 1 in 10,761
Best ever in a state: #225 in North Dakota, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #432 | 5 | 1 in 2,303 |
| Utah | #554 | 5 | 1 in 3,117 |
| Pennsylvania | #843 | 8 | 1 in 7,283 |
| Michigan | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,423 |
| Texas | #1,228 | 13 | 1 in 10,761 |
| Illinois | #1,468 | 5 | 1 in 13,984 |
| Florida | #1,501 | 5 | 1 in 14,670 |
| California | #1,935 | 10 | 1 in 22,285 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kendyl
- 477 spots since 2024 (#3,695 → #4,172)
- 1,490 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #4,172)
- 2,865 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #4,172)
- Biggest jump: 97 spots in 2011 (#1,082 → #985)
- Biggest drop: 80 spots in 2013 (#966 → #1,046)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2012 at #966 (264 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2011–2012
- Highest: 1 in 6,671 girls born in 2012 were named Kendyl (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,273 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.8% of all girls named Kendyl (1,823) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,391 |
| 1970s | 22 | #6,619 (1971) | #8,726 |
| 1980s | 214 | #2,434 (1987) | #5,014 |
| 1990s | 919 | #1,408 (1994) | #1,809 |
| 2000s | 1,816 | #1,040 (2009) | #1,268 |
| 2010s | 1,823 | #966 (2012) | #1,428 |
| 2020s | 283 | #2,682 (2020) | #3,437 |
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.
Kendyl in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 15,269 of them was named Kendyl, which outranked 91.0% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,442Micheala115
- #1,442Selene115
- #1,442Spencer115
- #1,449Kendyl114
- #1,449Britany114
- #1,449Hayleigh114
- #1,449Janel114
- #1,456Alli113
- #1,456Autum113
- #1,456Harlie113
Tied with 6 names at #1,449; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.