Kinga — girls' name
213 babies named Kinga in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
213 girls have been named Kinga since 1987, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2025.
- 213
- total births
- 1987–2025
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 45%
- born in that decade
45% of everyone ever named Kinga was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Kinga in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kinga
The Social Security Administration has registered 213 babies named Kinga between 1987 and 2025, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kinga currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kinga performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kinga shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kinga in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kinga 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 213 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.
Kinga at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kinga popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1987
- Peak year (2008)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
213 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 16 births in a single year.
Kinga by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 95 births that decade — 45% of Kinga's all-time total
Kinga decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 50 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kinga's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Kinga by state
Where Kinga concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 22 | 10.3% |
22 of 213 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 10.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 10.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1987–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.