Kendra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kendra: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #194 in 2010, and it stood at #1,353 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#194highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#848
1997	#1365
1998	#1165
1999	#1160
2000	#930
2001	#992
2002	#1104
2003	#965
2004	#1012
2005	#1243
2006	#928
2007	#693
2008	#608
2009	#689
2010	#730
2011	#877
2012	#1253
2013	#1220
2014	#1234
2015	#860
2016	#1416
2017	#1457
2018	#1343
2019	#1562
2020	#1618
2021	#1785
2022	#1120
2023	#1135
2024	#1353

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.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1135 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 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 recorded1998–2021
Highest recorded position: #194 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2010 (recorded 1998–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kendra appears in 3 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 818 births with the name.

Kendra across 3 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.

Kendra'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)	#608 (2008)	#1353 (2024)	29 of 29	818 (1996–2024)	61 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#194 (2010)	#350 (2021)	7 of 24	31 (1998–2021)	10 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#465 (2000)	#465 (2000)	#856 (2023)	10 of 24	41 (2000–2023)	6 (2007)

Kendra 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 Kendra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000sbusiest	325	10 of 10	33
2010s	303	10 of 10	30
2020s	117	5 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

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

Kendra appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #194 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Kendra'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	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1120	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#860	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#877	41	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#730	50	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#689	53	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#608	61	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#693	49	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1012	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#965	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#992	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#848	26	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#194	10	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#582	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #194, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 61 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Kendal · #848, 29y
Kendall · #278, 30y
Kendrick · #541, 22y
Kenechukwu · #348, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Kallum · #194, 28y
Kirstie · #194, 28y
Ayat · #193, 26y
Keane · #193, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Kallum · #194, 28y
Ayat · #193, 26y
Barnaby · #195, 29y
Emmeli · #195, 22y

Kendra was ranked #194 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2010. 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.

Kendra 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 Kendra without appearing here.

Kendra moved ahead of

Brodie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1692 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1120 and #2488.
Susan Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1692 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1120 and #2058.
Alison Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1402 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1120 and #1948.
Shannon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1505 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1120 and #1948.

Moved ahead of Kendra

Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #860 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1416 and #768.
Mina Compare
In 2011 they stood at #877 and #959 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1253 and #722.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1343 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1562 and #1063.
Violet Compare
In 1996 they stood at #848 and #1031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1365 and #897.

Moved the opposite way to Kendra

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Kendra

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kendra went from #848 to #1353 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #194 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kendra

Kendra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kendra across 3 official records

Kendra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kendra 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 Kendra

Kendra and the names beside it

Kendra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kendra

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Kendra at a glance

Kendra across 3 official records

Kendra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kendra 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 Kendra

Kendra and the names beside it

Kendra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kendra

Moved the opposite way to Kendra

Moved the same way as Kendra