Kendyl
#4,223 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kendyl has been given to 5,237 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #4,223 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 264 recorded.
Babies named Kendyl, 2025
1 in 97,500
Kendyl over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kendyl?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,223
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kendyl sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kendyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kendyls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kendyl was born before 2008 — so the typical Kendyl is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,098
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (1,823).
Is Kendyl 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
- −499
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,525
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,914
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.19×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.9%
- Peak was 2012 (264)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kendyl
Kendyl is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 53.2% against Kendyl's 1.0%.
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 Kendyl is used
Across 2016–2025, Kendyl was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 33,758 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
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.
Kendyl around the world
Where Kendyl 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 & Wales2013–2019#5,591in 2019
- Scotland2012–2012#815in 2012
- Canada1994–2016#2,329in 2016
- South Australia1982–1982#670in 1982
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kendyl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kendyl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kendyl
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kendyl, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kendyl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.