girls:
66 births since 1978
#5650 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.1k births since 1971
#1923 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1971
#4256 (45th percentile)
The name Kentrell is the #4,256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,138 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 45.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,923 (58.1% percentile) for all time with 4,072 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,650 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1978.
Kentrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Kentrell is available in 51 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kentrell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kentrell reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 17.4% percentile (ranked #758) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 85 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kentrell ranks #796 for boys (12.6% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 76.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kentrell reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #809) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kentrell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kentrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.5% confident that Kentrell is pronounced as kehn-TREHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEHN-trehl, at 42.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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