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Kendra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 320 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 1987; #849 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kendra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#849 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #77.
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Kendra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 320 girls in 2025. Peak: #77 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 3,841 (1987).
In 2025, 320 US girls were named Kendra, making it the 849th most common girls’ name of the year, down 163 places from #686 in 2024. That is 95 fewer than the 415 girls named Kendra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #77, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,841. For comparison, it was #341 in 2015 and #931 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kendra in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 8 babies. In all, 98,788 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 24,556 babies named Kendra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,386 US girls were named Kendra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 964. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,023 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kendra ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #521 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyndra (2,404 babies since 1880), Kindra (3,883 babies since 1880), Keandra (1,382 babies since 1880) and Keondra (1,124 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kiandra, Kendrah and Keyondra are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kay, Kenj, Kenji and Kenny.
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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: Kiandra (973), Kendrah (432), Keyondra (378), Keaundra (230), Keyandra (205), Keundra (195), Kyandra (165), Kiondra (136), Kenndra (135), Keiondra (128), Keiandra (125), Keyundra (64), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 20 | #521 | #420 |
| Texas | 57 | #557 | #159 |
| Indiana | 12 | #562 | #429 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #614 | #418 |
| Arizona | 10 | #656 | #174 |
| Utah | 6 | #658 | #285 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #700 | #447 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #745 | #468 |
| California | 39 | #781 | #256 |
| Maryland | 6 | #785 | #738 |
| Virginia | 9 | #805 | #509 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #825 | #464 |
| Illinois | 10 | #886 | #351 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #892 | #560 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #948 | #468 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #969 | #540 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,055 | #340 |
| New York | 14 | #1,058 | #415 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,145 | #675 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,149 | #361 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,209 | #653 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,324 | #409 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 320 | #849 | — | — |
| 2024 | 415 | #686 | — | — |
| 2023 | 381 | #739 | — | — |
| 2022 | 420 | #703 | — | — |
| 2021 | 460 | #649 | — | — |
| 2020 | 539 | #551 | — | — |
| 2019 | 521 | #586 | — | — |
| 2018 | 625 | #498 | — | — |
| 2017 | 741 | #430 | — | — |
| 2016 | 964 | #347 | — | — |
| 2015 | 964 | #341 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,271 | #258 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,724 | #189 | 6 | #11,493 |
| 2012 | 810 | #386 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,071 | #293 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,497 | #207 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,390 | #239 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,450 | #236 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,702 | #200 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,404 | #244 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,245 | #262 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,199 | #272 | 9 | #7,892 |
| 2003 | 1,235 | #259 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,386 | #227 | 5 | #11,648 |
| 2001 | 1,496 | #211 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,730 | #187 | 7 | #8,696 |
| 1999 | 1,838 | #170 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,035 | #154 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,053 | #153 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,368 | #136 | 9 | #6,273 |
| 1995 | 2,372 | #133 | 5 | #9,629 |
| 1994 | 2,536 | #126 | 11 | #5,281 |
| 1993 | 2,604 | #128 | 7 | #7,222 |
| 1992 | 2,673 | #125 | 5 | #9,160 |
| 1991 | 2,704 | #118 | 13 | #4,355 |
| 1990 | 2,789 | #117 | 13 | #4,291 |
| 1989 | 3,230 | #99 | 38 | #1,942 |
| 1988 | 3,761 | #80 | 25 | #2,405 |
| 1987 | 3,841 | #77 | 22 | #2,518 |
| 1986 | 2,759 | #101 | 9 | #4,675 |
| 1985 | 1,840 | #154 | 14 | #3,307 |
| 1984 | 1,921 | #150 | 16 | #2,888 |
| 1983 | 1,608 | #172 | 12 | #3,532 |
| 1982 | 1,762 | #163 | 18 | #2,648 |
| 1981 | 1,849 | #152 | 10 | #4,009 |
| 1980 | 1,816 | #154 | 5 | #6,785 |
| 1979 | 2,069 | #137 | 20 | #2,429 |
| 1978 | 1,903 | #145 | 11 | #3,509 |
| 1977 | 1,773 | #152 | 13 | #3,119 |
| 1976 | 1,630 | #157 | 8 | #4,213 |
| 1975 | 1,505 | #173 | 6 | #5,133 |
| 1974 | 1,490 | #178 | 13 | #2,878 |
| 1973 | 1,263 | #204 | 7 | #4,296 |
| 1972 | 1,396 | #200 | 7 | #4,214 |
| 1971 | 1,482 | #202 | 6 | #4,677 |
| 1970 | 1,150 | #267 | — | — |
| 1969 | 871 | #307 | — | — |
| 1968 | 695 | #330 | — | — |
| 1967 | 796 | #305 | — | — |
| 1966 | 714 | #332 | — | — |
| 1965 | 454 | #444 | — | — |
| 1964 | 392 | #491 | — | — |
| 1963 | 411 | #477 | — | — |
| 1962 | 365 | #508 | — | — |
| 1961 | 351 | #520 | — | — |
| 1960 | 285 | #588 | — | — |
| 1959 | 259 | #617 | — | — |
| 1958 | 200 | #699 | — | — |
| 1957 | 208 | #691 | — | — |
| 1956 | 237 | #623 | — | — |
| 1955 | 136 | #832 | — | — |
| 1954 | 114 | #901 | — | — |
| 1953 | 121 | #844 | — | — |
| 1952 | 96 | #960 | — | — |
| 1951 | 105 | #879 | — | — |
| 1950 | 92 | #931 | — | — |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1948 | 79 | #982 | — | — |
| 1947 | 95 | #913 | — | — |
| 1946 | 77 | #950 | — | — |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,251 | — | — |
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).