Kendahl — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kendahl

The Social Security Administration has registered 662 babies named Kendahl between 1965 and 2021, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kendahl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Kendahl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 49 additional births since 1993.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kendahl performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kendahl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Kendahl in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kendahl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 662 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.