Girls' name · since 2007
Kennley
175 babies named Kennley in U.S. Social Security records since 2007, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 175
- total births
- 2007–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 66%
- born in that decade
Kennley sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 175 recorded since 2007.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kennley has been recorded 175 times among girls since 2007, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 2010s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- 175 total births
- 2007–2025 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 66% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kennley's 175 recorded births place it above 71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kennley's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kennley's full recorded timeline at 2015, 47% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 53% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2012 peak of 17 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kennley popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2012)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Kennley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Kennley's strongest decade.
116 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 66% of all-time use.
Kennley births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 30
2000s
30 births
- 2010s
2010s
116 births
- 2020s 29
2020s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 116 births (66% of all-time use).
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- Kennley's decade-level peak was the 2010s (116 total births); usage has since declined to 29 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kennley: Baby Name Since 2007 - 175 Births, Peak 2012." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kennley. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kennley draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.