Kenli
Kenli was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,165 among girls’ names; 612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenli?
#9,165 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenli fell from #4,920 in 2015 to #9,165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 6.8 per million.
54 babies in 2010, the peak
Kenli peaked in 2010, when 54 girls were given it, #3,097 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,165 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,192 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,835 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,350 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,457 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,240 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,881 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,387 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,589 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,382 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,920 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,604 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,962 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,818 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,635 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,097 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,745 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,824 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,026 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,165 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,596 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,983 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,790 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,667 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,746 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,469 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,967 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,323 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenli, and how old are they?
An estimated 607 Americans named Kenli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 547 people named Kenli (533 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 526 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kenli?
Kenli is a less common spelling of Kenley: SSA has recorded 612 Kenli and 8,451 Kenley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,924 babies since 1880, Kenli is the fourth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 231 babies (4.8%), again the fourth 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 Kenli
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 Kenli and names like it
- Compare Kenli and KenleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenli peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenli since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kenli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.