Kyndall
Feminine · “valley of the Kent”
Kyndall is given to both — 6,428 girls and 211 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kyndall respells Kendall, and the English place name is the valley of the Kent — a Cumbrian river whose Celtic name means holy or sacred.
How old is the name Kyndall?
Kyndall first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Kyndall alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 6,400 people named Kyndall are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kyndall most popular?
Kyndall peaked in 2011, reaching #794 nationally. Today it ranks #1942, 1,148 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kent dalr to Kyndall
The story of Kyndall
Kendal was a wool town and gave its name to Kendal Green, the cloth Shakespeare's Falstaff mentions. The surname reached America, and Kendall entered given-name use for both sexes — for girls in far larger numbers from the 1990s. Kyndall appears in the registers from that decade in current use.
Meaning
valley of the Kent
From the river Kent in Cumbria, whose Brythonic name is generally read as 'holy' or 'sacred', and the Old Norse dalr, 'valley'. Kendal in Westmorland preserves it. The construction is a genuine Celtic-Norse hybrid and the reading is documented.
How the name formed
- Kent dalr
- Kendal
- Kendall
- Kyndall
Related forms: Kendall · Kendal · Kyndal
Pronouncing Kyndall
KEN-dul
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Kyndall
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
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 2011341 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #794reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −30.8%99 in 2025, from 143
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.
Kyndall in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kendall in English — spelling variant
- Kendal in English — spelling variant
- Kyndal in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Kyndalls among us
people named Kyndall are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,235 born in 2025 was named Kyndall
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kyndall
- #1942
- Kyndall on the 2025 chart
- #822
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kyndall went to 99 girls in 2025, but Kyndal is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 138, which makes it the 822nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,120 places above the chart.
- Kyndall99
- Kyndal39
About 1 girl in 11,647 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,235 for Kyndall 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 Ricki test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kyndall's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ricki climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ricki's path sketches the road Kyndall is walking now.
Kyndall 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 Kyndall is headed
Kyndall should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Kyndall beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kyndall in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Celtic-Norse hybrid construction is a genuinely good piece of place-name history.
- A real Cumbrian town and river stand behind it.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Kendall is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- The y will need dictating every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kyndalls are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,400 people named Kyndall are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kyndall?
- Kyndall is the most-used spelling in US records — 99 of the 138 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kyndal.
- How popular is the name Kyndall in 2025?
- Kyndall ranks #1942 among US girl names in 2025, with 99 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kyndall?
- About 1 in every 16,235 US girls born in 2025 was named Kyndall — 99 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kyndall with classmates?
- Kyndall will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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