Kinslee
Kinslee was given to 269 girls in 2025, #956 among girls’ names; 5,342 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,310 Americans named Kinslee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinslee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kinslee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kinslee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern spelling variant of Kinsley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kinslee?
#956 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinslee fell from #750 in 2015 to #956 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.17 per 1,000.
455 babies in 2017, the peak
Kinslee peaked in 2017, when 455 girls were given it, #652 among girls’ names. The 269 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #956 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 249 | #1,018 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 360 | #784 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 348 | #807 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 389 | #736 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 384 | #723 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 399 | #715 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 419 | #694 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 455 | #652 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 385 | #739 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 377 | #750 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 292 | #922 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 214 | #1,132 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 166 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 154 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,495 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,039 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,449 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,761 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,154 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,859 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,928 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,014 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,811 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,787 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,468 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinslee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinslee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kinslee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinslee, and how old are they?
5,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,342 Americans ever recorded as Kinslee. The median Kinslee alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 2,902 people named Kinslee (2,899 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,418 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 795 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,510 |
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 Kinslee born?
The states with the most babies named Kinslee are Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,175 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #585 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 16 | #631 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 15 | #698 | 1.5× |
| California | 15 | #1,534 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 14 | #575 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #751 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,210 | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #473 | 2.6× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #852 | 2.0× |
Where Kinslee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kinslee is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1997 it was given 2.6 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 Kinslee 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 59,821 babies since 1880, Kinslee is the second most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 3,122 babies (8.6%), again the second 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 Kinslee
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 Kinslee and names like it
- Compare Kinslee and KinsleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKinslee peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinslee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kinslee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kinslee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kinslee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.