Kenlie
Kenlie was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,166 among girls’ names; 596 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 Kenlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenlie?
#9,166 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenlie fell from #4,351 in 2015 to #9,166 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 6.8 per million.
58 babies in 2010, the peak
Kenlie peaked in 2010, when 58 girls were given it, #2,953 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,166 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,252 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,963 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,802 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,264 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,916 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,940 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,254 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,936 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,383 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,351 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,687 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,743 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,341 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,291 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,953 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,235 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,364 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,804 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,055 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,104 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,635 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,865 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,647 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,747 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,535 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,905 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,264 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenlie 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 Kenlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 591 Americans named Kenlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 500 people named Kenlie (495 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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 Kenlie?
Kenlie is a less common spelling of Kenley: SSA has recorded 596 Kenlie and 8,451 Kenley since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 12,857 babies since 1880, Kenlie is the fifth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 231 babies (4.8%), again the fifth 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 Kenlie
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 Kenlie and names like it
- Compare Kenlie and KenleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenlie peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenlie since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kenlie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenlie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.