Kendis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kendis

The Social Security Administration has registered 30 babies named Kendis between 1956 and 1969, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kendis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1969. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Kendis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9 additional births since 2004.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kendis performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kendis shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kendis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kendis 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 30 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.