Meaning not yet researched.
Kenlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,498 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,498 in 2015; #3,494 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Kenlee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,494 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,498.
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Kenlee: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,498 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 153 (2015).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Kenlee, making it the 3,494th most common girls’ name of the year, down 539 places from #2,955 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 56 girls named Kenlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,498, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 153. For comparison, it was #1,498 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kenlee, making it the 11,371st most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #9,460, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 8. For comparison, it was #11,441 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenlee in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 6 babies. In all, 2,270 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,273 babies named Kenlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 819 US girls were named Kenlee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kinley (20,313 babies since 1880), Kenley (8,451 babies since 1880), Kynlee (6,242 babies since 1880) and Kinlee (2,681 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kenlee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,494 | 6 | #11,371 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,139 | 6 | #11,511 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,809 | 7 | #10,264 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,625 | 5 | #13,276 |
| 2015 | 153 | #1,498 | 6 | #11,441 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,551 | 6 | #11,495 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,659 | 6 | #11,568 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,583 | 5 | #13,404 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,024 | 5 | #13,545 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,760 | 8 | #9,460 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,466 | 5 | #12,351 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,878 | — | — |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,061 | 5 | #10,822 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,442 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,049 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,119 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,598 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).