as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, which is at least in part a local name, either from Kendal in Cumbria (formerly the county town of Westmorland), so named because it stands in the valley of the river Kent, or from Kendale in Driffield, Humberside, where the first element is Old Norse keld ‘spring’. The surname may in some cases be derived from the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from an Old Celtic word meaning ‘high, exalted’ + delw ‘image, effigy’).
| 1,006th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 27,915
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 67,334
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Kendall per capita
- 2005
- marked the height of its popularity
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14%
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24%
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