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Kendall
Pronounced /ˈkɛndəl/
Rank in 2024
#1,233
Born in 2024
162
Peak year
1993 · #287
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:985 in 2024 (#310)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 162 boys were named Kendall, about 1 in every 10,588.
- It peaked in 1993 with 965 babies, ranked #287.
- It first shows up in the records in 1906.
- 35,186 boys have been named Kendall since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kendall per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 895 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 1,628 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,561 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,828 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,195 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,253 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,826 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From the placename Kendal in Cumbria, "valley of the river Kent", and Kendale in Humberside, from Old Norse kelda (“spring”) + dalr (“valley”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɛndəl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kendall, CC BY-SA 4.0.