Kinga
Kinga was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,106 among girls’ names; 213 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinga by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kinga mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Kinga is “a female given name”
Clipping of Kunegunda, borrowed from German Kunigunde, from Old High German Kunigunde, from kunni + gunda.
/ˈkiŋ.ɡa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kinga?
#14,106 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinga fell from #11,415 in 2015 to #14,106 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Kinga peaked in 2008, when 16 girls were given it, #7,937 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,106 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,346 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,505 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,991 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,415 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,016 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,973 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,792 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,281 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,937 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #12,173 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,498 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,809 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,197 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,260 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,680 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,478 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,285 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,166 | 5.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,710 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,195 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,145 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,617 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,780 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,280 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinga a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinga has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinga: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinga, and how old are they?
An estimated 211 Americans named Kinga and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,272 people named Kinga (1,272 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.6 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kinga
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.