Kensley — #743 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kensley

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,581 babies named Kensley between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kensley currently holds the #743 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 738 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kensley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,945 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kensley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 769 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Kensley in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kensley 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 8,581 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.