girls:
375 births since 1971
#5341 (7th percentile)
boys:
32.3k births since 1912
#634 (86th percentile)
overall:
32.7k births since 1912
#1399 (82nd percentile)
The name Kendrick is the #1,399 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,714 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 81.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #634 (86.2% percentile) for all time with 32,339 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,341 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 375 births since 1971.
Kendrick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1971 for girls).
The name Kendrick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kendrick reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 65.3% percentile (ranked #309) with 518 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 518 births per million (ranked 65.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kendrick ranks #432 for boys (52.6% percentile) with 344 births per million, which is 66.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kendrick reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #791) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kendrick".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kendrick is pronounced as KEHN-drihk, which has 2 syllables.
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