Kinsley
Kinsley was given to 2,671 girls in 2025, #93 among girls’ names; 50,243 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 49,900 Americans named Kinsley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kinsley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kinsley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kinsley is “a female given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “Royal (a man's name)” (Cyne) and “'s” (-s) and “woodland clearing” (lēah).
From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man’s name)”) + -s (“'s”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kinsley?
#93 among girls’ names, 2025
Kinsley rose from #113 in 2015 to #93 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.6 to 1.7 per 1,000.
4,066 babies in 2017, the peak
Kinsley peaked in 2017, when 4,066 babies were given it (4,053 girls, #59 among girls’ names). The 2,683 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,671 | #93 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 2,937 | #85 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 3,204 | #67 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 3,705 | #61 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 3,885 | #57 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 3,780 | #59 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 3,510 | #74 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 3,881 | #63 | 2.3 |
| 2017 | 4,053 | #59 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 3,378 | #86 | 1.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,788 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 2,448 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 1,981 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 1,760 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,461 | #218 | 0.83 |
| 2010 | 1,046 | #307 | 0.59 |
| 2009 | 743 | #428 | 0.40 |
| 2008 | 547 | #562 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 386 | #758 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 301 | #885 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 262 | #945 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,206 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,237 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,304 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,453 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,609 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,944 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,258 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,008 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,814 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,009 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,461 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,823 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,167 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,433 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,468 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,377 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,966 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,291 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kinsley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kinsley has been given almost only to girls: 227 boys in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kinsley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kinsley, and how old are they?
49,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 50,243 Americans ever recorded as Kinsley. The median Kinsley alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 27,209 people named Kinsley (26,950 women and girls, 259 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 341 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42,100 |
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 Kinsley born?
The states with the most babies named Kinsley are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 222 | #142 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 150 | #50 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 144 | #126 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 128 | #69 | 0.9× |
| California | 127 | #261 | 0.4× |
| New York | 114 | #143 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 106 | #95 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 104 | #63 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 102 | #81 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 93 | #71 | 1.6× |
Where Kinsley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kinsley is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1978 it was given 2.0 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 Kinsley 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 59,525 babies since 1880, Kinsley is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,683 of their 3,125 babies (86%), 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 Kinsley
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 Kinsley and names like it
- Compare Kinsley and KinsleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKinsley peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kinsley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kinsley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kinsley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kinsley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.