Kendrick
Kendrick was given to 559 boys in 2025, #535 among boys’ names; 33,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,100 Americans named Kendrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 12 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kendrick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kendrick is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Epenthesized variant of Kenrick.
/ˈkɛn.dɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kendrick?
#535 among boys’ names, 2025
Kendrick fell from #366 in 2015 to #535 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.46 to 0.33 per 1,000.
1,054 babies in 2013, the peak
Kendrick peaked in 2013, when 1,054 babies were given it (1,047 boys, #318 among boys’ names). The 564 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 559 | #535 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 645 | #477 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 633 | #479 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 664 | #463 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 723 | #429 | 0.41 |
| 2020 | 698 | #425 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | 722 | #427 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 754 | #415 | 0.42 |
| 2017 | 777 | #407 | 0.42 |
| 2016 | 830 | #385 | 0.44 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 881 | #366 | 0.46 |
| 2014 | 1,012 | #333 | 0.53 |
| 2013 | 1,047 | #318 | 0.55 |
| 2012 | 572 | #477 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 492 | #521 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 500 | #518 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 494 | #536 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 520 | #523 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 472 | #545 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 482 | #528 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 433 | #554 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 464 | #518 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 527 | #476 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 469 | #492 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 471 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 518 | #459 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 554 | #426 | 0.29 |
| 1998 | 563 | #417 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 563 | #412 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 569 | #407 | 0.30 |
| 1995 | 566 | #405 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 623 | #376 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 631 | #374 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 677 | #351 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 763 | #329 | 0.38 |
| 1990 | 728 | #339 | 0.35 |
| 1989 | 707 | #328 | 0.35 |
| 1988 | 643 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 640 | #323 | 0.34 |
| 1986 | 574 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 463 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 469 | #377 | 0.26 |
| 1983 | 469 | #372 | 0.26 |
| 1982 | 499 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1981 | 472 | #371 | 0.26 |
| 1980 | 469 | #369 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 550 | #332 | 0.32 |
| 1978 | 494 | #346 | 0.30 |
| 1977 | 474 | #362 | 0.29 |
| 1976 | 411 | #380 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 366 | #402 | 0.23 |
| 1974 | 369 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 362 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 302 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 372 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 224 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 126 | #703 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 106 | #729 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 98 | #746 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 68 | #881 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 65 | #922 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 63 | #963 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,194 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,071 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,372 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,311 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 30 | #1,433 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,333 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 29 | #1,465 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,355 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,577 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,535 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,600 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,543 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,451 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,527 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,738 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,576 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,852 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,735 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,555 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,385 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,401 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,287 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,629 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,244 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,809 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,854 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,527 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,474 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 33,942 Americans recorded as Kendrick, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 559 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendrick, and how old are they?
32,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 33,942 Americans ever recorded as Kendrick. The median Kendrick alive today is 26 years old; half are between 12 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 23,191 people named Kendrick (284 women and girls, 22,907 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,748 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 65 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 425 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,950 |
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).
Where are babies named Kendrick born?
The states with the most babies named Kendrick are Texas, California and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 61 | #536 | 1.3× |
| California | 51 | #584 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 41 | #453 | 1.3× |
| New York | 32 | #510 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 24 | #351 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 22 | #377 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 22 | #486 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 21 | #508 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #506 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 20 | #400 | 0.9× |
Where Kendrick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kendrick is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1912 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kendrick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,651 babies since 1880, Kendrick is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 564 of their 600 babies (94%), again the most given.
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 Kendrick
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 Kendrick and names like it
- Compare Kendrick and KendricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKendrick peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendrick since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kendrick: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Kendrick.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kendrick alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.