Kendyn
Kendyn was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 225 Americans have been recorded with it between 2003 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kendyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kendyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,263, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 2016, the peak
Kendyn peaked in 2016, when 23 boys were given it, #4,406 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #10,263 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,104 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,260 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,929 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,194 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,406 | 12.1 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,781 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,875 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,077 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,469 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | #4,755 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,551 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,463 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,261 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,454 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,386 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,444 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,878 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kendyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 225 Americans recorded as Kendyn, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kendyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kendyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Kendyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 15. 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 spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kendyn
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.