Name meaning & stats
Kendall
Kendall means “valley of the River Kent”. 100,050 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
“valley of the River Kent”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
100,050 US babies were named Kendall between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kendall (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 82% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)