Kensington
Kensington was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,839 among girls’ names; 3,112 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,090 Americans named Kensington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kensington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kensington?
#2,839 among girls’ names, 2025
Kensington fell from #974 in 2015 to #2,839 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.04 per 1,000.
292 babies in 2015, the peak
Kensington peaked in 2015, when 292 babies were given it (278 girls, #974 among girls’ names). The 60 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,839 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,375 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,776 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,518 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,976 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 211 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 241 | #1,065 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 264 | #1,001 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 278 | #974 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 230 | #1,108 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 224 | #1,095 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 152 | #1,489 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 116 | #1,763 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,805 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,581 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,189 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,229 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,444 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,553 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,002 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,151 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,997 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,762 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,120 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,937 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,443 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kensington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,112 Americans recorded as Kensington, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 60 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kensington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kensington, and how old are they?
3,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,112 Americans ever recorded as Kensington. The median Kensington alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,388 people named Kensington (2,257 women and girls, 131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 859 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,230 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kensington born?
The states with the most babies named Kensington are California, Virginia and Tennessee, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,938 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,288 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,223 | 0.8× |
Where Kensington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kensington is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1997 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kensington with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kensington
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 Kensington and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kensington since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kensington.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kensington alive today were born 2013-2025.
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