Entry № 5376 · English origin

Kendall Kendall — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEN-dahl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Valley of the Kent (Kendall Jenner, world's highest-paid model)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "valley of the kent (kendall jenner, world's highest-paid model)".

Kendall is from the Old English place-name Kent dale — the valley of the River Kent in Cumbria. Kendall Jenner (born 1995) — American model and TV personality; the world's highest-paid model from 2017 to 2018 according to Forbes; signed to IMG Models in 2014; has walked for Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Chanel, Versace, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, and Estée Lauder. Founder of 818 Tequila (2021). Kendall Roy is the male protagonist of HBO's Succession. Kendall — Charles Kendall male. Kendall Roy male. The name has been gender-flipped almost entirely by the Jenner association in the 2010s.

Subject of countless fashion industry profiles.

Valley of the Kent (Kendall Jenner, world's highest-paid model) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Kendall
Transliteration
Kendall
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛn.dəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kendall stands.

Kendall does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kendalls before her.

Real people
Kendall Jenner
American model.
born 1995
In fiction
Kendall Roy
HBO's Succession.
2018

Names connected to Kendall.

The number behind Kendall.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kendall reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.