Kendall
28,998 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kendall in the 2020 census, making it the 1,188th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 28,998
- Rank
- 1,188th
- How common
- 1 in 10,300
- Per 100,000
- 9.7
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Kendall described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Kendall
- Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999)American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Edward Calvin Kendall (1886–1972)American chemist
- Kay Kendall (1927–1959)English actress
- Howard Kendall (1946–2015)English footballer and manager
- Liz Kendall (born 1971)British politician
- Barbara Kendall (born 1967)New Zealand windsurfer
- Suzy Kendall (born 1937)British actress
- Bruce Kendall (born 1964)New Zealand sailor
People named Kendall with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Kendall
Also a first name
Kendall has been given to 101,883 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.