Kinsey
Kinsey was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,086 among girls’ names; 8,113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,950 Americans named Kinsey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinsey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kinsey?
#3,086 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinsey fell from #1,369 in 2015 to #3,086 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 96.9 to 33.0 per million.
319 babies in 2011, the peak
Kinsey peaked in 2011, when 319 babies were given it (313 girls, #843 among girls’ names). The 53 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,086 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,402 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,930 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,680 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,016 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,828 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,243 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,573 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,585 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 173 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,114 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 241 | #1,036 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 248 | #1,023 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 313 | #843 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 269 | #953 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,044 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 242 | #1,080 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 285 | #956 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 294 | #904 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 250 | #980 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 228 | #1,024 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 234 | #987 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 214 | #1,016 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 265 | #863 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 252 | #877 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 242 | #883 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 255 | #835 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 181 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 216 | #910 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 197 | #951 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 192 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 188 | #983 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 201 | #955 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,064 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 134 | #1,236 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,542 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,609 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,550 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,617 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,169 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,743 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,562 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,505 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,680 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,925 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,566 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinsey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,113 Americans recorded as Kinsey, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 53 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kinsey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinsey, and how old are they?
7,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,113 Americans ever recorded as Kinsey. The median Kinsey alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 7,241 people named Kinsey (6,942 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 157 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Kinsey born?
The states with the most babies named Kinsey are Texas, California and Georgia, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 965 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 470 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 352 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 327 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 294 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 282 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 238 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 196 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 188 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 179 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Kinsey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kinsey is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1917 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kinsey 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 8,262 babies since 1880, Kinsey is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 53 babies (100%), 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 Kinsey
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 Kinsey and names like it
- Compare Kinsey and KinsieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKinsey peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinsey since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kinsey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kinsey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.