Kenlee
Kenlee is given to both girls and boys: 44 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,493 among girls’ names and #11,367 among boys’, #5,637 among all names counting both); 2,270 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,250 Americans named Kenlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenlee?
#3,493 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenlee fell from #1,498 in 2015 to #3,493 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 85.7 to 27.4 per million.
159 babies in 2015, the peak
Kenlee peaked in 2015, when 159 babies were given it (153 girls, #1,498 among girls’ names). The 50 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,493 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,955 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,538 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,652 | 40.2 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,429 | 45.1 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,231 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,121 | 53.0 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,139 | 52.3 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,809 | 66.6 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,625 | 76.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,498 | 85.7 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,630 | 73.9 |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,551 | 80.4 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,659 | 73.3 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,583 | 78.5 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,835 | 62.4 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,024 | 55.5 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,760 | 34.9 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,877 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,718 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,339 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,462 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,873 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,490 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,378 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,716 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,055 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,081 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,437 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,044 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,114 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,592 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,270 Americans recorded as Kenlee, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenlee, and how old are they?
2,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,270 Americans ever recorded as Kenlee. The median Kenlee alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,774 people named Kenlee (1,675 women and girls, 99 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 959 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kenlee born?
The states with the most babies named Kenlee are Texas, Kentucky and Oklahoma, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 242 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 85 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Oklahoma | 85 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 78 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 74 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 55 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 53 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Utah | 53 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 49 | not ranked | 1.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenlee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,032 babies since 1880, Kenlee is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 238 babies (21%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kenlee and names like it
- Compare Kenlee and KenleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenlee peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenlee since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kenlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kenlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.