Kendal

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kendal: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kendal: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #848, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#848highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#848
1997	#874
1998	#1122
1999	#1473
2000	#1688
2001	#1520
2002	#3409
2003	#1472
2004	#2530
2005	#1690
2006	#1325
2007	#2410
2008	#2487
2009	#2326
2010	#2392
2011	#2025
2012	#2095
2013	#1360
2014	#1628
2015	#1405
2016	#2008
2017	#1568
2018	#1788
2019	#1940
2020	#2163
2021	#1962
2022	#2673
2023	#5687
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #848 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #848 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kendal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 396 births with the name.

Kendal across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kendal's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#848 (1996)	#848 (1996)	#4192 (2024)	29 of 29	396 (1996–2024)	26 (1996)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#3996 (2017)	14 of 22	58 (1996–2017)	7 (2007)

Kendal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kendal in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	81	4 of 10	20
2000s	107	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	165	10 of 10	17
2020s	43	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kendal appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #848 in England and Wales in 1996.

Kendal's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1568	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#874	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#848	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #848, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ken · #126, 66y
Kenan · #242, 30y
Kendall · #278, 30y
Kendra · #194, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fenella · #848, 29y
Ihsan · #848, 29y
Nasir · #848, 29y
Sai · #847, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Fenella · #848, 29y
Ihsan · #848, 29y
Nasir · #848, 29y
Sai · #847, 29y

Kendal was ranked #848 in England and Wales · Girls in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kendal and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kendal without appearing here.

Kendal moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2487 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #4688.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Kendal

Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1959.
Janet Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.

Moved the opposite way to Kendal

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Kendal

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendal went from #848 to #4192 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #848 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kendal

Kendal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kendal across 2 official records

Kendal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kendal appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kendal

Kendal and the names beside it

Kendal moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kendal

Moved the opposite way to Kendal

Moved the same way as Kendal

Kendal at a glance

Kendal across 2 official records

Kendal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kendal appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kendal

Kendal and the names beside it

Kendal moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kendal

Moved the opposite way to Kendal

Moved the same way as Kendal