Kinleigh
Kinleigh was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,364 among girls’ names; 2,155 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Kinleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinleigh?
#3,364 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinleigh fell from #1,306 in 2015 to #3,364 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.03 per 1,000.
233 babies in 2014, the peak
Kinleigh peaked in 2014, when 233 girls were given it, #1,097 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,364 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,359 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,835 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,140 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,376 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,537 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,907 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,654 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,325 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,304 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 183 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 233 | #1,097 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,447 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,954 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,911 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,971 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,339 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,634 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,310 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,368 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,887 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,173 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,479 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,878 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,385 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinleigh, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,155 Americans ever recorded as Kinleigh. The median Kinleigh alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,570 people named Kinleigh (1,562 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 641 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,500 |
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 Kinleigh born?
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 Kinleigh 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,152 babies since 1880, Kinleigh is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 81 babies (57%), 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 Kinleigh
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 Kinleigh and names like it
- Compare Kinleigh and KynleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKinleigh peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kinleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kinleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.