Kendra is the English feminine of Kendrick — from the Old English cyne-rīce (royal power) or the Welsh Cynddelw ("highest hero"). A top-200 US baby name from 1988 to 2010. Kendra Scott (born 1974) — American businesswoman; founded the Kendra Scott jewelry brand in 2002 from her Austin, Texas spare bedroom with $500; by 2024 the company had 140+ retail stores in 41 US states and a private-company valuation exceeding $1 billion. EY Entrepreneur of the Year (2017); the Kendra Scott Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (founded 2020). Her "Color Bar" customization model — letting customers choose the stone and setting in real time — became one of the most-copied retail innovations of the 2010s. Pledges 5% of sales to local nonprofits in each store's community. Kendra Wilkinson (born 1985) — American TV personality; star of E!'s The Girls Next Door (2005-2010); spin-offs Kendra (2009-2011) and Kendra on Top (2012-2016). Kendra G — American radio personality. Kendra Lust — American adult actress. Kendrick Lamar is male (16-time Grammy winner, 2025 Super Bowl halftime, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music — the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win).
Featured throughout 1990s-2020s American culture.
Kendra 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kendra reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.