Kindel
Kindel was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 71 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kindel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kindel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,972, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1985, the peak
Kindel peaked in 1985, when 11 girls were given it, #6,245 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,972 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,707 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,160 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,952 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,621 | 2.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,068 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,245 | 6.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,216 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,757 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,948 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kindel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 71 Americans recorded as Kindel, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kindel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kindel, and how old are they?
An estimated 69 Americans named Kindel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 266 people named Kindel (195 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Kindel is a less common spelling of Kyndell: SSA has recorded 71 Kindel and 650 Kyndell since 1880.
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 Kindel
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.