Kendrew
Kendrew was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,327 among boys’ names; 117 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendrew by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendrew?
#9,327 among boys’ names, 2025
Kendrew entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,327 in 2025.
12 babies in 1999, the peak
Kendrew peaked in 1999, when 12 boys were given it, #5,500 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,327 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,153 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,411 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,297 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,215 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,281 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,233 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,343 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,462 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,081 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #10,698 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,959 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,741 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,500 | 6.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,808 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,916 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendrew a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kendrew has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kendrew: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendrew, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Kendrew and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kendrew
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.