Kendall
About 101,883 American babies have been named Kendall since 1906, most of them around 2012. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 328th. About 96,000 Kendalls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Kendall
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Kendall crossed from boys to girls in 1993, and has stayed there for 33 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 89% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 113 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 101,883
- Estimated living today
- 96,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 116th
- Rank in 2025
- 328th
- First recorded
- 1906
- Girls / boys
- 66,533 / 35,350
How old the living Kendalls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 101,883 babies given the name since 1906, about 96,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 36,000 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From the placename Kendal in Cumbria, "valley of the river Kent", and Kendale in Humberside, from Old Norse kelda (“spring”) + dalr (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kendalls
- Kendall Jenner (born 1995)American media personality and model
- Kendall Schmidt (born 1990)American musician, singer, songwriter and actor
- Kendall Waston (born 1988)Costa Rican footballer
- Kendall Ellis (born 1996)American sprinter
- Kendall Marshall (born 1991)American basketball player
- Kendall Gill (born 1968)British basketball player
- Kendall Coyne (born 1992)American ice hockey player
- Kendall Cross (born 1968)Olympic wrestler
People named Kendall with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kendall is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kendall is most concentrated in Maryland (1.6×), Virginia (1.6×), Georgia (1.5×), Florida (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Kendall peaked:
Kendall elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Kendall | 878 | 527th |
| Scotland girls | Kendall | 205 | 235th |
| France girls | Kendall | 160 | 1,550th |
| France boys | Kendall | 150 | 1,712th |
| England and Wales boys | Kendall | 75 | 2,097th |
| Ireland girls | Kendall | 65 | 458th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kendall | 13 | 278th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Kendall against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.