Kenley — #1473 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kenley

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,163 babies named Kenley between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kenley currently holds the #1473 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 614 babies received it in a single year. Kenley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,143 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kenley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,594 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kenley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 649 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kenley in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kenley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,163 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.