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Kendall vs Kenyatta

American parents have registered 101,883 Kendalls since 1880, against 7,471 Kenyattas. Kendall is still ahead, with 1,095 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kendall Kenyatta

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

Of the 119 years in which either name was published, Kendall for 118 years and Kenyatta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kendall Kenyatta
Total US births 101,8837,471
Most in one year 3,004443
Babies in 2025 1,095under 5
Estimated living today 96,0007,100
Median age today 2242
Peak year 20121975
Best rank 116th girls688th girls
Rank in 2025 328thunranked
First recorded 19061961
Girls / boys 66,533 / 35,3504,255 / 3,216

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Kenyattas alive today are over 42; half the Kendalls are over 22. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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