Kendle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kendle

The Social Security Administration has registered 339 babies named Kendle between 1961 and 2017, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kendle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Kendle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 189 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kendle performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kendle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kendle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kendle 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 339 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.