Kendalyn
Kendalyn was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,981 among girls’ names; 1,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Kendalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendalyn?
#6,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Kendalyn fell from #3,456 in 2015 to #6,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 10.0 per million.
61 babies in 2014, the peak
Kendalyn peaked in 2014, when 61 girls were given it, #2,828 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,981 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,249 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,473 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,724 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,453 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,874 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,978 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,889 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,514 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,962 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,456 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,828 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,146 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,244 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,199 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,230 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,771 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,953 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,019 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,892 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,640 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,294 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,164 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,560 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,527 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,988 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,664 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,472 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,757 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,489 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,129 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,205 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,778 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,060 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,831 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,088 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,396 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,030 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,192 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,788 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,913 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,788 | 5.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,257 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kendalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kendalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendalyn, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,091 Americans ever recorded as Kendalyn. The median Kendalyn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 838 people named Kendalyn (829 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 945 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 84 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 486 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 498 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,726 babies since 1880, Kendalyn is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 26 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Kendalyn
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 Kendalyn and names like it
- Compare Kendalyn and KendalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKendalyn peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kendalyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kendalyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.