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Kendyll vs Kennedy

American parents have registered 101,120 Kennedys since 1880, against 1,582 Kendylls. Kennedy is still ahead, with 3,019 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kendyll against Kennedy, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kendyll Kennedy

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

Kennedy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Kendyll had 11 and Kennedy had 58.

Side by side

  Kendyll Kennedy
Total US births 1,582101,120
Most in one year 1174,688
Babies in 2025 163,019
Estimated living today 1,600100,000
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20112015
Best rank 1,804th girls58th girls
Rank in 2025 6,838th85th
First recorded 19821912
Girls / boys 1,558 / 2493,663 / 7,457

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 Kendylls alive today are over 16; half the Kennedys are over 13. That is 3 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: Kendyll and Kennedy.