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Kendall vs Kentravion

American parents have registered 101,883 Kendalls since 1880, against 31 Kentravions. Kendall is still ahead, with 1,095 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kendall against Kentravion, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kendall Kentravion

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kendall has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Kendall had 2,845 and Kentravion had 19.

Side by side

  Kendall Kentravion
Total US births 101,88331
Most in one year 3,00419
Babies in 2025 1,095under 5
Estimated living today 96,00030
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20122004
Best rank 116th girls4,421st boys
Rank in 2025 328thunranked
First recorded 19062004
Girls / boys 66,533 / 35,3500 / 31

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kendall and Kentravion.