Meaning not yet researched.
Kendrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 559 in 2025. Its best rank was #318 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #318 in 2013; #535 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kendrick in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#535 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #318.
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Kendrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 559 boys in 2025. Peak: #318 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 1,047 (2013).
In 2025, 559 US boys were named Kendrick, making it the 535th most common boys’ name of the year, down 58 places from #477 in 2024. That is 86 fewer than the 645 boys named Kendrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #318, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,047. For comparison, it was #366 in 2015 and #1,452 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kendrick in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 33,942 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,651 babies named Kendrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,005 US boys were named Kendrick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 830. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kendrick ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #337 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kendric (2,530 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kendrik, Kendryck and Kindrick are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ken and Kenny.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kendrik (363), Kendryck (116), Kindrick (94), Keondrick (67), Kendryk (52), Kyndrick (37), Kenndrick (17), Kendrich (16), Keondric (8), Kindric (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.
Kendrick is listed as a nickname for Kenneth, Kent.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 16 | #337 | #336 |
| Alabama | 16 | #350 | #291 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #351 | #424 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #377 | #328 |
| Virginia | 20 | #400 | #295 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #422 | #373 |
| Iowa | 8 | #425 | #402 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #438 | #306 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #438 | #447 |
| Florida | 41 | #453 | #273 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #456 | #291 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #468 | #242 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #470 | #567 |
| Nevada | 6 | #482 | — |
| Ohio | 22 | #486 | #420 |
| Kansas | 7 | #495 | #548 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #506 | #278 |
| Georgia | 21 | #508 | #279 |
| New York | 32 | #510 | #476 |
| Texas | 61 | #536 | #442 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #537 | #496 |
| Missouri | 11 | #541 | #270 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #547 | #441 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #576 | #239 |
| Arizona | 12 | #579 | #395 |
| California | 51 | #584 | #558 |
| Utah | 7 | #593 | #465 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #621 | #365 |
| Indiana | 8 | #742 | #265 |
| Illinois | 11 | #778 | #344 |
| Colorado | 6 | #811 | #502 |
| Michigan | 8 | #876 | #308 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,077 | #404 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,136 | 559 | #535 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,494 | 645 | #477 |
| 2023 | — | — | 633 | #479 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,730 | 664 | #463 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,704 | 723 | #429 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,824 | 698 | #425 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,802 | 722 | #427 |
| 2018 | — | — | 754 | #415 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,355 | 777 | #407 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,632 | 830 | #385 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,757 | 881 | #366 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,553 | 1,012 | #333 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,917 | 1,047 | #318 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,246 | 572 | #477 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,078 | 492 | #521 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,003 | 500 | #518 |
| 2009 | — | — | 494 | #536 |
| 2008 | — | — | 520 | #523 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,085 | 472 | #545 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,638 | 482 | #528 |
| 2005 | — | — | 433 | #554 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,198 | 464 | #518 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,059 | 527 | #476 |
| 2002 | — | — | 469 | #492 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,531 | 471 | #486 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,062 | 518 | #459 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,873 | 554 | #426 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,339 | 563 | #417 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,441 | 563 | #412 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,047 | 569 | #407 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,557 | 566 | #405 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,138 | 623 | #376 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,435 | 631 | #374 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,940 | 677 | #351 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,178 | 763 | #329 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,847 | 728 | #339 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,244 | 707 | #328 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,033 | 643 | #335 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,955 | 640 | #323 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,949 | 574 | #336 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,920 | 463 | #386 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,063 | 469 | #377 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,474 | 469 | #372 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,119 | 499 | #359 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,059 | 472 | #371 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,170 | 469 | #369 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,964 | 550 | #332 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,048 | 494 | #346 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,673 | 474 | #362 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,914 | 411 | #380 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,791 | 366 | #402 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,394 | 369 | #406 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,350 | 362 | #411 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,862 | 302 | #455 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,823 | 372 | #415 |
| 1970 | — | — | 224 | #542 |
| 1969 | — | — | 126 | #703 |
| 1968 | — | — | 106 | #729 |
| 1967 | — | — | 98 | #746 |
| 1966 | — | — | 68 | #881 |
| 1965 | — | — | 65 | #922 |
| 1964 | — | — | 63 | #963 |
| 1963 | — | — | 55 | #1,023 |
| 1962 | — | — | 43 | #1,195 |
| 1961 | — | — | 53 | #1,072 |
| 1960 | — | — | 34 | #1,373 |
| 1959 | — | — | 36 | #1,312 |
| 1958 | — | — | 30 | #1,434 |
| 1957 | — | — | 35 | #1,334 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,466 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,356 |
| 1954 | — | — | 24 | #1,578 |
| 1953 | — | — | 25 | #1,536 |
| 1952 | — | — | 23 | #1,601 |
| 1951 | — | — | 24 | #1,544 |
| 1950 | — | — | 26 | #1,452 |
| 1949 | — | — | 24 | #1,528 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,739 |
| 1947 | — | — | 23 | #1,577 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,853 |
| 1945 | — | — | 16 | #1,736 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,556 |
| 1943 | — | — | 26 | #1,386 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,401 |
| 1941 | — | — | 27 | #1,287 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,503 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,361 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,590 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,787 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,359 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,629 |
| 1934 | — | — | 15 | #1,893 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,045 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,887 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,777 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,647 |
| 1928 | — | — | 27 | #1,434 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,244 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1925 | — | — | 21 | #1,714 |
| 1924 | — | — | 28 | #1,436 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,318 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,854 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,438 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,793 |
| 1919 | — | — | 17 | #1,928 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,626 |
| 1917 | — | — | 19 | #1,728 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,096 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,838 |
| 1914 | — | — | 17 | #1,528 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,475 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,735 |
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).