Kendra

What Kendra means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kendra yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #341 in 2015, #849 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kendra?

US: Falling: down from #341 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #860 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1987, when 3,841 girls got the name (#77 that year). First in the US records in 1936.

How common

• About 1 in 5,023 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,742 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AR (0.47 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.43 per 1,000 girls), OH (0.42 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kendra is #849 in the US and #1229 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kendra were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kindra6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kendra

Girls

• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025
• Jordan#131Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #59 in 2015, #131 in 2025
• Kevin#221“dear birth/person”^*
• Brandon#261“broom shrub + hill, dune”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• Aaron#80Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kendra’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.