Kensi
Kensi was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,505 among girls’ names; 761 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kensi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kensi?
#10,505 among girls’ names, 2025
Kensi fell from #2,826 in 2015 to #10,505 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 5.6 per million.
90 babies in 2014, the peak
Kensi peaked in 2014, when 90 girls were given it, #2,133 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,505 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,380 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,838 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,099 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,774 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,363 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,750 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,112 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,735 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,040 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,826 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,133 | 50.4 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,645 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,552 | 40.3 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,200 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,509 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,244 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,466 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,361 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,863 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,299 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,813 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,310 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,872 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,442 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,624 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,022 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,064 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,253 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,694 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,036 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,795 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kensi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kensi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kensi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kensi, and how old are they?
An estimated 755 Americans named Kensi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 752 people named Kensi (735 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 645 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,282 babies since 1880, Kensi is the third most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 33 babies (27%), the second most given that year.
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 Kensi
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 Kensi and names like it
- Compare Kensi and KensieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKensi peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kensi since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kensi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kensi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.