Kensington — #2396 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kensington

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,889 babies named Kensington between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kensington currently holds the #2396 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 278 babies received it in a single year. Kensington is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 161 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kensington performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,001 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kensington shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 269 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kensington in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kensington in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,889 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.