Kendra
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning clear water; from a place name.
How Kendra has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #341 |
| 2016 | #347 |
| 2017 | #432 |
| 2018 | #498 |
| 2019 | #587 |
| 2020 | #551 |
| 2021 | #650 |
| 2022 | #703 |
| 2023 | #741 |
| 2024 | #687 |
| 2025 | #849 |
Kendra by the numbers
In 2025, 26 babies in England and Wales were named Kendra. In the US, 734 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 3,841 babies in 1987, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1990, about 1 in 740 American girls born that year was called Kendra.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kendra. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean water
Like Kendra, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Brookesmall stream1,616 in the US (2017)
- Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rosemarydew of the sea; the herb rosemary687 in the US (2017)
- Raynerain or counsel; a modern respelling of Raine368 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kendra
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