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Kenda

#10,501 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kenda has been given to 2,484 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #10,501 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Kenda, 2025

1 in 368,000

Kenda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kenda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kenda means

Kenda is a given name.

The naming story behind Kenda

Wikidata records Kenda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q28807015, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,484 girls were recorded with the name Kenda between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,234 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,189 in 2020 to #10,501 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,214 in 2015 to #10,501 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kenda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,501
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kenda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kenda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kendas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kenda was born before 1973 — so the typical Kenda is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,399
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (625).

Is Kenda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−600
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,312
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,287
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 1964 (80)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,234
1964

Spellings of Kenda

Kenda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 37.9% against Kenda's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kenda is used

Across 1910–2025, Kenda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 185,201 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Kansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Iowa1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kenda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kenda around the world

Where Kenda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    2018–2023
    #5,830
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kenda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,501
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,312
Best rank ever
#1,234
1964
Peak year
1964
80 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,484
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kenda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kenda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kenda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kenda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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