Kensly
Kensly is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,323 among girls’ names and #10,211 among boys’, #9,800 among all names counting both); 250 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kensly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kensly?
#7,323 among girls’ names, 2025
Kensly rose from #7,807 in 2015 to #7,323 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 9.3 per million.
28 babies in 2018, the peak
Kensly peaked in 2018, when 28 girls were given it, #4,828 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,323 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,253 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,794 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,279 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,459 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,492 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,081 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,828 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,353 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,753 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,807 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,463 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,921 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,817 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,771 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,878 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,076 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,604 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,154 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kensly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 250 Americans recorded as Kensly, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kensly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kensly, and how old are they?
An estimated 248 Americans named Kensly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Kensly (199 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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).
How common is the spelling Kensly?
Kensly is a less common spelling of Kensley: SSA has recorded 250 Kensly and 9,285 Kensley since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 12,259 babies since 1880, Kensly is the sixth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 501 babies (4.4%), the fourth 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 Kensly
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 Kensly and names like it
- Compare Kensly and KensleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Kensly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kensly alive today were born 2013-2025.
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