Kinser
Kinser was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 108 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinser by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinser?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,378, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2005, the peak
Kinser peaked in 2005, when 10 boys were given it, #7,424 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #10,378 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,265 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,527 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,201 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,180 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,634 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,501 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,527 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,392 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,424 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #10,733 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,684 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,804 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,334 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,112 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,282 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinser a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinser has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinser: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinser, and how old are they?
An estimated 106 Americans named Kinser and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 151 people named Kinser (20 women and girls, 131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Kinser
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.