Kendel — #10021 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kendel

The Social Security Administration has registered 822 babies named Kendel between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kendel currently holds the #10021 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Kendel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 801 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kendel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kendel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kendel in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kendel 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 822 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.