Meaning not yet researched.
Kendell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #900 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #900 in 1989; #3,901 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Kendell in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,901 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #900.
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Kendell: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #900 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 129 (1990).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Kendell, making it the 3,901st most common boys’ name of the year, down 338 places from #3,563 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 32 boys named Kendell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #900, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 129, in 1990. For comparison, it was #2,400 in 2015 and #2,380 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Kendell, making it the 8,617th most common girls’ name of the year, up 639 places from #9,256 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 girls named Kendell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,018, reached in 1971. The most girls given the name in a single year was 75, in 2004. For comparison, it was #5,048 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kendell in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 6,759 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,500 babies named Kendell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 372 US boys were named Kendell; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kendall (101,883 babies since 1880), Kendal (13,800 babies since 1880), Kyndall (6,639 babies since 1880) and Kendyl (5,237 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kendell 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 | 12 | #8,617 | 28 | #3,901 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,256 | 32 | #3,563 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,814 | 35 | #3,382 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,793 | 26 | #4,146 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,728 | 26 | #4,075 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,495 | 42 | #2,866 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,375 | 53 | #2,507 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,904 | 35 | #3,272 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,415 | 43 | #2,824 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,382 | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,048 | 54 | #2,400 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,059 | 62 | #2,189 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,541 | 60 | #2,190 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,147 | 64 | #2,117 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,110 | 81 | #1,788 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,151 | 83 | #1,787 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,071 | 81 | #1,835 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,049 | 108 | #1,512 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,273 | 79 | #1,840 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,796 | 84 | #1,692 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,952 | 83 | #1,642 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,317 | 88 | #1,525 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,858 | 80 | #1,584 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,176 | 97 | #1,367 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,451 | 93 | #1,376 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,653 | 102 | #1,275 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,284 | 110 | #1,177 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,174 | 90 | #1,329 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,904 | 101 | #1,184 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,535 | 87 | #1,270 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,324 | 110 | #1,078 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,153 | 95 | #1,174 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,400 | 103 | #1,107 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,912 | 98 | #1,114 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,330 | 117 | #993 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,571 | 129 | #909 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,073 | 127 | #900 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,091 | 88 | #1,061 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,509 | 87 | #1,019 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,876 | 83 | #1,018 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,666 | 71 | #1,105 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,495 | 62 | #1,159 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,369 | 65 | #1,114 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,707 | 62 | #1,172 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,242 | 66 | #1,129 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,262 | 61 | #1,169 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,415 | 68 | #1,082 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,545 | 80 | #967 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,056 | 49 | #1,278 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,031 | 59 | #1,105 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,524 | 47 | #1,246 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,936 | 52 | #1,144 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,857 | 29 | #1,629 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,787 | 38 | #1,376 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,018 | 56 | #1,094 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,785 | 45 | #1,246 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,014 | 43 | #1,210 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,337 | 44 | #1,137 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,382 | 39 | #1,209 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,832 | 40 | #1,186 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,199 | 40 | #1,214 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,787 | 45 | #1,155 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,090 | 49 | #1,098 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,411 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,081 | 31 | #1,451 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,959 | 43 | #1,198 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,292 | 23 | #1,690 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,618 | 34 | #1,329 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,558 | 24 | #1,656 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,880 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,375 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,799 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,323 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,567 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,380 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #1,984 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,634 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,209 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,039 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,069 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,550 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,119 |
| 1941 | — | — | 19 | #1,620 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,008 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,360 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,761 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,585 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,115 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,949 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,471 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,251 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,451 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,968 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,119 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,656 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,053 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,492 |
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).