Kendric
Masculine · “chief hero”
Kendric is a spelling of Kendrick, and Kendrick has two ancestries: a Welsh compound about a chief hero and an Old English one about a bold king.
How old is the name Kendric?
Kendric first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Kendric alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 2,400 people named Kendric are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kendric most popular?
Kendric peaked in 1971, reaching #1330 nationally. Today it ranks #3658, 2,328 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cynwrig to Kendric
The story of Kendric
Wales and England each had a name that English writing turned into Kendrick, and the families carrying it now cannot generally tell which they descend from. The surname reached America with Welsh and English emigration, and its move into given names is recent — helped, in the last decade, by a rapper whose work has made the name internationally familiar. Kendric without the k is one of the spellings.
Meaningscholars disagree
chief hero, or bold king
Welsh Cynwrig joins elements meaning chief and hero. Old English Cyneric joins cyne, royal, and ric, ruler. Both produced the surname Kendrick in English, and the two are unrelated apart from a shared Indo-European ancestor behind the second elements.
How the name formed
- Cynwrig
- Kendrick
- Kendric
Related forms: Cynwrig · Kendrick
Pronouncing Kendric
KEN-drik
Two syllables, first stressed. Kendric and Kendrick are said identically.
Nicknames for Kendric
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
- 1966
- Most boys named
- 201373 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1330reached in 1971
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%30 in 2025, from 30
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.
Kendric in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cynwrig in Welsh — related form
- Kendrick in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Kendrics among us
people named Kendric are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 56,936 born in 2025 was named Kendric
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kendric
- #3658
- Kendric on the 2025 chart
- #463
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kendric went to 30 boys in 2025, but Kendrick and Kendryck are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 595, which makes it the 463rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,195 places above the chart.
- Kendrick559
- Kendric30
- Kendryck6
About 1 boy in 2,871 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 56,936 for Kendric itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jc test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kendric's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jc climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jc's path sketches the road Kendric is walking now.
Kendric sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kendric is headed
Kendric is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kendric beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kendric in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two documented ancestries, Welsh and Old English, both genuinely old.
- Ken and Ric are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Kendrick is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- A very well-known musician carries the name, which is now the first association.
- The two possible origins give the name two different meanings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kendrics are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Kendric are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kendric?
- Kendric is one of 3 recorded spellings. Kendrick is the more common one — 559 births in 2025 against 30 for Kendric.
- How popular is the name Kendric in 2025?
- Kendric ranks #3658 among US boy names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kendric?
- About 1 in every 56,936 US boys born in 2025 was named Kendric — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kendric with classmates?
- Kendric will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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