Kendria
Feminine
Kendria is a coinage extending a coinage. The name it is built on appeared in America in the middle of the last century with no ancestor anybody has ever traced, and this version lengthens it with the ending English uses to make a name more formal — so the whole thing is two layers of invention with nothing underneath.
How old is the name Kendria?
Kendria first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Kendria alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,000 people named Kendria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kendria most popular?
Kendria peaked in 1984, reaching #2421 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
Where it comes from
From Kendra appears in American records without an ancestor to Kendria
Our story of Kendria
It is worth defending a name like this against the word made-up. Every name was made up. The difference is only how long ago, and whether anybody was keeping records at the time. The Germanic names that fill English history were assembled out of a stock of elements by families who liked the sound of the combination, and nobody now calls Aethelred an invention. What has changed is the record: a name coined in America in the 1960s has a documented first appearance, which makes its manufacture visible in a way that Aethelred's is not. Visibility is not the same thing as illegitimacy, though it is regularly mistaken for it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The consonant cluster in the middle is worth noticing. English names almost never carry a d followed by an r in the middle of a word, and the ones that do — Alexandra, Cassandra, Sandra, Deandra — nearly all got it from Greek, where the word for a man supplied the ending of a great many compounds. Kendra and its relatives arrived at the same cluster without going through Greek at all, which is a small piece of evidence that the sound was chosen for its own sake.
How the name formed
- Kendra appears in American records without an ancestor
- a Latin ending is available to lengthen it
- Kendria appears in the middle 1960s
- peaks in the middle 1980s
- rarely given since
Related forms: Kendra · Kendrea
Pronouncing Kendria
KEN-dree-uh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. Some families put the weight on the middle, ken-DREE-uh, which the spelling permits equally well.
Nicknames for Kendria
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 199243 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2421reached in 1984
- Change vs 2017
- −28.6%5 in 2023, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kendria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kendra in English — related form
- Kendrea in English — spelling variant
Kendrias among us
people named Kendria are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kendria sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Kendra sits inside it as a complete and much commoner name.
- It is read correctly at sight by anyone who tries.
- The consonant cluster gives it a firmness that softer coinages of the period lack.
- There is no meaning and no ancestor, at either of its two layers.
- The stress is unsettled and she will hear the name two ways.
- It is closely dated to the middle decades of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kendrias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Kendria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kendria in 2025?
- Kendria is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Kendria with classmates?
- Kendria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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