Unisex name · since 1971
Kindel
66 babies named Kindel in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 66
- total births
- 1971–2012
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
66 girls have been named Kindel since 1971, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kindel has 66 recorded births among girls since 1971, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1971 to 2012.
- 66 total births
- 1971–2012 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 45% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kindel's 66 recorded births place it above 56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kindel's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kindel's SSA record in two at 1993 and the more recent half accounts for 44% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 56%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1981, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1985 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kindel popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–2012
- Peak year (1985)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 42 years of records
Kindel popularity over time - boys
5 total births recorded since 1991 (Kindel as boys' name)
Kindel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Kindel's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Kindel births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 7
1970s
7 births
- 1980s
1980s
30 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
18 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 30 births (45% of all-time use).
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- Kindel's decade-level peak was the 1980s (30 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1971–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kindel: Baby Name Since 1971 - 66 Births, Peak 1985." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kindel. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kindel draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.