Kendel
Kendel was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Kendel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,423, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1994, the peak
Kendel peaked in 1994, when 56 babies were given it (28 boys, #2,650 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,423 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,308 | 8 | #9,368 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,348 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,128 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,548 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,902 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,182 | 6 | #11,509 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,301 | 11 | #7,388 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,228 | 11 | #7,311 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,620 | 15 | #5,874 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #9,918 | 21 | #4,541 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,845 | 14 | #6,163 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,416 | 19 | #4,910 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,716 | 15 | #5,898 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,204 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,454 | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,617 | 20 | #4,725 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,720 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,153 | 17 | #4,937 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,001 | 20 | #4,345 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,357 | 20 | #4,198 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,175 | 22 | #3,858 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,468 | 18 | #4,386 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,642 | 24 | #3,473 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,966 | 11 | #5,860 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,473 | 16 | #4,301 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,181 | 22 | #3,304 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,673 | 20 | #3,477 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,279 | 20 | #3,370 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,838 | 28 | #2,650 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,720 | 23 | #2,980 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,145 | 9 | #5,890 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,666 | 17 | #3,541 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,278 | 18 | #3,386 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,718 | 16 | #3,528 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,739 | 15 | #3,438 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,679 | 13 | #3,629 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,073 | 12 | #3,765 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,052 | 11 | #3,922 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,070 | 17 | #2,758 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,367 | 16 | #2,849 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,587 | 7 | #5,326 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,526 | 9 | #4,343 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,098 | 6 | #5,915 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,933 | 13 | #3,262 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,639 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,876 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,687 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,750 | 10 | #3,549 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,146 | 7 | #4,399 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,019 | 5 | #5,488 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,236 | 9 | #3,488 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,286 | 10 | #3,263 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,589 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,001 | 13 | #2,488 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,439 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,118 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,157 | 5 | #4,255 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,535 | 15 | #2,127 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,361 | 8 | #3,159 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,555 | 7 | #3,475 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,037 | 8 | #3,233 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 11 | #2,612 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,276 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,634 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kendel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,623 Americans recorded as Kendel, 49% are girls and 51% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendel, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,623 Americans ever recorded as Kendel. The median Kendel alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,584 people named Kendel (830 women and girls, 754 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 189 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 523 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 643 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kendel?
Kendel is a less common spelling of Kendell: SSA has recorded 1,623 Kendel and 6,759 Kendell since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,382 babies since 1880, Kendel is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 40 babies recorded by SSA was a Kendel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kendel
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 Kendel and names like it
- Compare Kendel and KendellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKendel peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendel since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kendel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kendel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.