Kenzley
Kenzley was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,288 among girls’ names; 1,845 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Kenzley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenzley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenzley?
#2,288 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenzley fell from #1,786 in 2015 to #2,288 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 49.8 per million.
158 babies in 2020, the peak
Kenzley peaked in 2020, when 158 girls were given it, #1,380 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,288 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,257 | 51.2 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,165 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,725 | 73.8 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,645 | 77.4 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,380 | 97.7 |
| 2019 | 135 | #1,583 | 80.4 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,561 | 81.7 |
| 2017 | 156 | #1,449 | 90.4 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,766 | 66.6 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,786 | 65.5 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,655 | 72.2 |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,734 | 68.4 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,173 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,970 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,997 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,633 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,254 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,788 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,940 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,482 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,085 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,816 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,629 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenzley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenzley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenzley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenzley, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,845 Americans ever recorded as Kenzley. The median Kenzley alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,043 people named Kenzley (1,028 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 267 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,560 |
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 Kenzley born?
The states with the most babies named Kenzley are Texas, Pennsylvania and California, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,305 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,174 | 0.5× |
| California | 5 | #3,328 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,577 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,009 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,670 | 0.6× |
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 Kenzley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,866 babies since 1880, Kenzley is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 188 babies (43%), again the most given.
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 Kenzley
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 Kenzley and names like it
- Compare Kenzley and KenzleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKenzley peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenzley since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kenzley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kenzley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.