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Kendall vs Kendarius

American parents have registered 101,883 Kendalls since 1880, against 1,042 Kendariuses. Kendall is still ahead, with 1,095 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kendall Kendarius

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

Kendall has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Kendall had 2,144 and Kendarius had 64.

Side by side

  Kendall Kendarius
Total US births 101,8831,042
Most in one year 3,00464
Babies in 2025 1,09511
Estimated living today 96,0001,000
Median age today 2223
Peak year 20121996
Best rank 116th girls1,552nd boys
Rank in 2025 328th7,194th
First recorded 19061988
Girls / boys 66,533 / 35,3500 / 1,042

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.

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: Kendall and Kendarius.