Kendall is a boy's name of English origin meaning “spring and valley.” In 2024 it was given to 162 boys in the United States.
Kendall at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“spring and valley”
Pronunciation
/ˈkɛndəl/
About the name Kendall
Kendall belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “spring and valley” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Kendall first appears in Social Security records in 1906. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #287 in 1993, and in 2024 162 babies received the name — 35,186 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.