Kendale
Kendale was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,325 among boys’ names; 1,036 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendale?
#9,325 among boys’ names, 2025
Kendale fell from #6,154 in 2015 to #9,325 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 4.7 per million.
44 babies in 1994, the peak
Kendale peaked in 1994, when 44 babies were given it (33 boys, #2,370 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,325 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,422 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,261 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,442 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,879 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,102 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,547 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,428 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,499 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,387 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,154 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,155 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,288 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,162 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,094 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,550 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,667 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,638 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,116 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,301 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,884 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,131 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,404 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,726 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,764 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,920 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,831 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,444 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,212 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,231 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,803 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,370 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,426 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,567 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,500 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,103 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,215 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,908 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,302 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,561 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,389 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,191 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,756 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,204 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,515 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,329 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,721 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,799 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,844 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,378 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,128 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,446 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,893 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,373 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,170 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,500 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,196 | 5.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,409 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,348 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,036 Americans recorded as Kendale, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendale, and how old are they?
An estimated 996 Americans named Kendale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 818 people named Kendale (134 women and girls, 684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 962 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kendale
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 Kendale and names like it
- Compare Kendale and DemarcoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKendale peaked in 1994.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendale since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kendale.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kendale alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.