Kendalyn

#6,981 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kendalyn has been given to 1,091 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #6,981 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Kendalyn, 2025

1 in 207,000

Kendalyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kendalyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,981
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kendalyn 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kendalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kendalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kendalyn was born before 2012 — so the typical Kendalyn is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,091
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (508).

Is Kendalyn 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
+2,268
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,107
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,525
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.2%
Peak was 2014 (61)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,828
2014

Spellings of Kendalyn

Kendalyn is not the most common spelling — Kendall is, with 83.6% against Kendalyn's 1.4%.

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 Kendalyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Kendalyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 258,288 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 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. Kendalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kendalyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,981
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,107
Best rank ever
#2,828
2014
Peak year
2014
61 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,091
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Kendalyn

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Sibling names for Kendalyn

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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