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Kendahl vs Kent

American parents have registered 69,493 Kents since 1880, against 711 Kendahls. Kent is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kendahl against Kent, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kendahl Kent

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kent has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Kendahl had 40 and Kent had 140.

Side by side

  Kendahl Kent
Total US births 71169,493
Most in one year 402,592
Babies in 2025 under 5101
Estimated living today 70050,000
Median age today 2361
Peak year 20081962
Best rank 3,936th girls136th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,654th
First recorded 19651885
Girls / boys 662 / 49171 / 69,322

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kents alive today are over 61; half the Kendahls are over 23. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kendahl and Kent.