Kynley
Kynley was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,593 among girls’ names; 549 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kynley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kynley?
#12,593 among girls’ names, 2025
Kynley fell from #3,457 in 2015 to #12,593 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 4.4 per million.
53 babies in 2012, the peak
Kynley peaked in 2012, when 53 girls were given it, #3,150 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,593 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,936 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,000 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,863 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,282 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,246 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,843 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,547 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,268 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,894 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,457 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,754 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,818 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,150 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,877 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,256 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,530 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,813 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,968 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,062 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,130 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,162 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,690 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,748 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kynley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kynley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kynley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kynley, and how old are they?
An estimated 545 Americans named Kynley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 9 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Kynley (426 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kynley?
Kynley is a less common spelling of Kinley: SSA has recorded 549 Kynley and 20,313 Kinley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,319 babies since 1880, Kynley is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 684 babies (1.0%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Kynley
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 Kynley and names like it
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