girls:
97.7k births since 1936
#376 (93rd percentile)
boys:
350 births since 1971
#4236 (8th percentile)
overall:
98k births since 1936
#691 (91st percentile)
The name Kendra is the #691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98,038 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 91.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #376 (93.4% percentile) for all time with 97,688 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,236 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 350 births since 1971.
Kendra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for girls and 1971 for boys).
The name Kendra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kendra reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 90.5% percentile (ranked #77) with 2,049 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 2,049 births per million (ranked 90.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2012, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Kendra ranks #596 for girls (37.1% percentile) with 216 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kendra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #720) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 18 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kendra".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kendra is pronounced as KEHN-druh, which has 2 syllables.
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