Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the name of the city of Kendale in northwestern England, meaning “valley on the river Kent,” Kendall was originally used mostly as a masculine name but became more popular for girls in 1993 after the character Kendall Hart appeared on the American soap opera All My Children.
20062006: 2,324 births, rank #148
2007: 2,167 births, rank #166
2008: 2,310 births, rank #149
2009: 2,415 births, rank #133
2010: 2,343 births, rank #133
20112011: 2,595 births, rank #124
2012: 2,625 births, rank #116
2013: 2,518 births, rank #130
2014: 2,442 births, rank #133
2015: 2,201 births, rank #147
20162016: 1,703 births, rank #193
2017: 1,399 births, rank #223
2018: 1,213 births, rank #272
2019: 1,215 births, rank #275
2020: 1,019 births, rank #314
20212021: 1,046 births, rank #305
2022: 1,061 births, rank #301
2023: 982 births, rank #316
2024: 988 births, rank #311
20252025: 932 births, rank #328
Kendall moved from #312 to #328 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2012, with 2,625 births.