Kendal — #3579 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kendal

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,073 babies named Kendal between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kendal currently holds the #3579 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 565 babies received it in a single year. Kendal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,664 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kendal performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,415 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kendal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 759 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kendal in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kendal 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 9,073 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.