The name Kendrick comes from a surname that has several different origins. It could be from the Old English given names Cyneric for ‘royal power’ or Cenric for ‘bold power’, or from the Welsh name Cynwrig for ‘chief hero’.
Kendrick is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Kendrick isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kendrick ranks 380. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Kendrick. In the entire USA, approximately 28,437 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kendrick. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Kendrick comes from a surname that has several different origins. It could be from the Old English given names Cyneric for ‘royal power’ or Cenric for ‘bold power’, or from the Welsh name Cynwrig for ‘chief hero’.
Some suggest,.. it may be an anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac Eanraig meaning 'son of Henry'.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Kendrick is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kendrick and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kendrick, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kendrick
Kendrick
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kendrick sounds like this:
