Meaning not yet researched.
Kendal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 2004; #3,276 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Kendal in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,276 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #513.
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Kendal: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #513 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 565 (2004).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Kendal, making it the 3,276th most common girls’ name of the year, up 334 places from #3,610 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 43 girls named Kendal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #513, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 565. For comparison, it was #1,262 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Kendal, making it the 7,010th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,267 places from #3,743 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 30 boys named Kendal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #888, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 140, in 1994. For comparison, it was #2,549 in 2015 and #1,726 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kendal in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 13,800 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,195 babies named Kendal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 772 US girls were named Kendal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kendall (101,883 babies since 1880), Kendell (6,759 babies since 1880), Kyndall (6,639 babies since 1880) and Kendyl (5,237 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyndel, Kindel and Kindyl are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kyndel (491), Kindel (71), Kindyl (46), Kynndal (6), Kyndyl (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kendal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,276 | 12 | #7,010 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,610 | 30 | #3,743 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,035 | 27 | #4,069 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,651 | 35 | #3,382 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,576 | 26 | #4,074 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,363 | 39 | #3,003 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,100 | 37 | #3,168 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,991 | 28 | #3,837 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,209 | 37 | #3,163 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,569 | 41 | #2,912 |
| 2015 | 194 | #1,262 | 49 | #2,549 |
| 2014 | 225 | #1,126 | 51 | #2,477 |
| 2013 | 234 | #1,065 | 55 | #2,318 |
| 2012 | 313 | #854 | 75 | #1,917 |
| 2011 | 346 | #786 | 75 | #1,881 |
| 2010 | 299 | #887 | 97 | #1,620 |
| 2009 | 361 | #783 | 53 | #2,424 |
| 2008 | 352 | #815 | 59 | #2,251 |
| 2007 | 298 | #912 | 74 | #1,921 |
| 2006 | 333 | #819 | 81 | #1,733 |
| 2005 | 417 | #666 | 75 | #1,764 |
| 2004 | 565 | #513 | 92 | #1,479 |
| 2003 | 373 | #704 | 70 | #1,743 |
| 2002 | 295 | #795 | 96 | #1,375 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,017 | 85 | #1,456 |
| 2000 | 210 | #1,009 | 95 | #1,348 |
| 1999 | 207 | #993 | 90 | #1,337 |
| 1998 | 240 | #880 | 79 | #1,441 |
| 1997 | 210 | #947 | 90 | #1,278 |
| 1996 | 214 | #917 | 126 | #992 |
| 1995 | 232 | #844 | 121 | #1,011 |
| 1994 | 268 | #769 | 140 | #930 |
| 1993 | 225 | #860 | 137 | #919 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,504 | 115 | #1,021 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,471 | 121 | #969 |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,359 | 135 | #888 |
| 1989 | 104 | #1,430 | 117 | #944 |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,273 | 84 | #1,086 |
| 1987 | 144 | #1,066 | 85 | #1,036 |
| 1986 | 124 | #1,152 | 75 | #1,082 |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,388 | 69 | #1,119 |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,078 | 56 | #1,232 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,638 | 64 | #1,122 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,815 | 52 | #1,302 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,887 | 50 | #1,318 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,561 | 50 | #1,333 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,386 | 49 | #1,332 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,977 | 50 | #1,276 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,952 | 40 | #1,463 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,047 | 41 | #1,400 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,025 | 40 | #1,391 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,794 | 41 | #1,342 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,863 | 47 | #1,215 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,551 | 47 | #1,203 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,947 | 45 | #1,246 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,254 | 49 | #1,187 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,252 | 41 | #1,243 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,514 | 46 | #1,110 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,402 | 37 | #1,238 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,648 | 39 | #1,208 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,644 | 31 | #1,394 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,959 | 41 | #1,209 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,391 | 54 | #1,033 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,132 | 37 | #1,287 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,890 | 30 | #1,480 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,151 | 38 | #1,280 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,528 | 43 | #1,186 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,461 | 39 | #1,243 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,066 | 39 | #1,259 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,586 | 29 | #1,465 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,276 | 25 | #1,558 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,173 | 28 | #1,451 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,798 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,983 | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,808 | 23 | #1,578 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,726 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,280 |
| 1948 | — | — | 17 | #1,854 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,821 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,852 |
| 1945 | — | — | 16 | #1,735 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,549 |
| 1943 | — | — | 12 | #2,230 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,820 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,007 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,581 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,719 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,563 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,342 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,489 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,925 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,577 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,061 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,160 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,987 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,966 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,082 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,117 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).