Kensey
Kensey was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 925 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kensey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kensey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,801, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1996, the peak
Kensey peaked in 1996, when 38 babies were given it (33 girls, #3,466 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,801 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,713 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,501 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,622 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,702 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,255 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,650 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,714 | 13.0 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,590 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,605 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 25 | #5,405 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,082 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,987 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,253 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,016 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,857 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,090 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,311 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,136 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,330 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,603 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,220 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,826 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,596 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,781 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,185 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,748 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,466 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,534 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,840 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,730 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,148 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,526 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,433 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,752 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,563 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,914 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,846 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,239 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,084 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,477 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,711 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,530 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,577 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kensey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kensey has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kensey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kensey, and how old are they?
An estimated 911 Americans named Kensey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,040 people named Kensey (947 women and girls, 93 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,102 babies since 1880, Kensey is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Kensey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kensey
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 Kensey and names like it
- Compare Kensey and KensieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKensey peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kensey since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Kensey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kensey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.