Kenda
Kenda was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,501 among girls’ names; 2,484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Kenda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 36 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenda?
#10,501 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenda fell from #8,214 in 2015 to #10,501 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.6 per million.
80 babies in 1964, the peak
Kenda peaked in 1964, when 80 girls were given it, #1,234 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,501 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,901 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,833 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,124 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,456 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,189 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,561 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,895 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,587 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,293 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,214 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,483 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,218 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,238 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,906 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,832 | 5.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,214 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,784 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,999 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,320 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,097 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,788 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,884 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,701 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,593 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,054 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,890 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,067 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,511 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,563 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,489 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,719 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,297 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,123 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,949 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,517 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,428 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,746 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,164 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,831 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,591 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,451 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,511 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,245 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,082 | 30.1 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,360 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,070 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,669 | 41.1 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,118 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,971 | 30.9 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,696 | 36.8 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,780 | 33.6 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,737 | 33.5 |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,579 | 36.7 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,550 | 36.0 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,817 | 27.3 |
| 1968 | 62 | #1,443 | 37.8 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,365 | 39.4 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,408 | 36.0 |
| 1965 | 64 | #1,383 | 36.3 |
| 1964 | 80 | #1,234 | 42.2 |
| 1963 | 72 | #1,301 | 37.4 |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,420 | 31.0 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,471 | 28.7 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,473 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,543 | 24.7 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,355 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,911 | 16.1 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,023 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,958 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,209 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,539 | 21.8 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,546 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,748 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,836 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,575 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,549 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,576 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,706 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,016 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,295 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,658 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,929 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,192 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenda, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,484 Americans ever recorded as Kenda. The median Kenda alive today is 51 years old; half are between 36 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,304 people named Kenda (2,273 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 564 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 797 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 456 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 196 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kenda born?
The states with the most babies named Kenda are Texas, California and Michigan, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 252 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 55 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kansas | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kenda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1941 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,185 babies since 1880, Kenda is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 77 babies (12%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kenda and names like it
- Compare Kenda and KenadiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKenda peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenda since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Kenda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kenda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.