Kendi
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#9,785
up +122 places
2025 births
10
unchanged births
All-time births
644
2% of them in 2025
More common than
86%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2007
- 31 births
- Best rank
- #4,126
- in 1979
- First recorded
- 1962
- #7,035 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1999
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 57 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 200731#4,750Peak
- 200822#6,255
- 201821#5,905
- 200520#6,139
- 197918#4,126
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #4,126 in 1979 · peak births 31 in 2007
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 4% boys■ 96% girls
24 boys · 644 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Kendi has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.