Kendyl
Kendyl was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,223 among girls’ names; 5,237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,180 Americans named Kendyl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendyl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendyl?
#4,223 among girls’ names, 2025
Kendyl fell from #1,309 in 2015 to #4,223 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.02 per 1,000.
271 babies in 2012, the peak
Kendyl peaked in 2012, when 271 babies were given it (264 girls, #966 among girls’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,223 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,724 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,455 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,924 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,770 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,698 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,052 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,181 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,081 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 182 | #1,309 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 221 | #1,135 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,053 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 264 | #966 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 260 | #985 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,085 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,043 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 231 | #1,120 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 184 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,225 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 197 | #1,171 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 212 | #1,083 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 162 | #1,286 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 120 | #1,561 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,313 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,658 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,485 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,451 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,467 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,408 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 106 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,055 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,765 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,205 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,822 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,458 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,087 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,589 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,211 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,203 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,237 Americans recorded as Kendyl, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendyl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendyl, and how old are they?
5,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,237 Americans ever recorded as Kendyl. The median Kendyl alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,624 people named Kendyl (4,453 women and girls, 171 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,910 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 811 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
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 Kendyl born?
The states with the most babies named Kendyl are Texas, California and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 400 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 283 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 228 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 227 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 207 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 188 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 159 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 158 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 148 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kendyl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kendyl is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1963 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Kendyl 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 123,213 babies since 1880, Kendyl is the third most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 1,205 babies (2.8%), again the third 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 Kendyl
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 Kendyl and names like it
- Compare Kendyl and KendallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKendyl peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kendyl since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kendyl.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kendyl alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.