Kendalynn
Kendalynn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,781 among girls’ names; 433 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendalynn?
#9,781 among girls’ names, 2025
Kendalynn fell from #5,380 in 2015 to #9,781 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.2 per million.
38 babies in 2018, the peak
Kendalynn peaked in 2018, when 38 girls were given it, #3,888 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,781 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,250 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,275 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,343 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,066 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,777 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,710 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,888 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,935 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,787 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,380 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,504 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,955 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,009 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,611 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,131 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,427 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,436 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,479 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,028 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,475 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,810 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,810 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,467 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,612 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,330 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,907 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,530 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kendalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kendalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendalynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 430 Americans named Kendalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Kendalynn (308 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 345 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,726 babies since 1880, Kendalynn is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 26 babies (38%), again the second 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 Kendalynn
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 Kendalynn and names like it
- Compare Kendalynn and KendalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKendalynn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kendalynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kendalynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.