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Girl · Old English place name
Kendall Say it: KEN-dul
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Meaning From an English surname taken from Kendal in Cumbria, 'valley of the River Kent'.
Certain scholars agree on this meaning.
Used for boys earlier, it has been mainly a girls' name in the US since the 1990s.
Its wave through time Most used in the 2010s
In the United States 0 0.5 1 1.5 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Girls 2012 Boys 1993 per 1,000 babies of that sex 95,946 babies given this name since 1906 At its height in 2011, about 1 in 677 girls 1,197 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Kendal, Kendell
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.