Meaning not yet researched.
Kensley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 367 in 2025. Its best rank was #424 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #424 in 2018; #742 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kensley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#742 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #424.
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Kensley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 367 girls in 2025. Peak: #424 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 738 (2018).
In 2025, 367 US girls were named Kensley, making it the 742nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #745 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 378 girls named Kensley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #424, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 738. For comparison, it was #639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kensley in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 8 babies. In all, 9,285 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,074 babies named Kensley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,465 US girls were named Kensley; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 738. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,379 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kensley ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #245 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kinsley (50,243 babies since 1880), Kinslee (5,342 babies since 1880), Kinzley (2,771 babies since 1880) and Kynslee (2,147 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kenslie, Kensli and Kenzly are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kenslie (608), Kensli (458), Kenzly (208), Kenzlei (154), Kenzlea (14).
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 Kensley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 18 | #245 | #472 |
| Alabama | 19 | #256 | #144 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #258 | #175 |
| Georgia | 35 | #297 | #358 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #359 | #253 |
| Maryland | 13 | #406 | #740 |
| Michigan | 19 | #450 | #695 |
| Missouri | 11 | #536 | #588 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #541 | #735 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #585 | #292 |
| Virginia | 13 | #590 | #446 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #615 | #389 |
| Ohio | 12 | #771 | #557 |
| Florida | 19 | #846 | #685 |
| Texas | 35 | #851 | #816 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #853 | #806 |
| Indiana | 7 | #870 | #493 |
| New York | 17 | #926 | #2,387 |
| Illinois | 9 | #966 | #1,115 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,016 | #414 |
| California | 19 | #1,298 | #1,984 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 367 | #742 | 16 | #5,729 |
| 2024 | 378 | #745 | 19 | #5,172 |
| 2023 | 374 | #754 | 14 | #6,360 |
| 2022 | 485 | #614 | 16 | #5,754 |
| 2021 | 544 | #563 | 10 | #7,888 |
| 2020 | 680 | #454 | 16 | #5,580 |
| 2019 | 656 | #477 | 13 | #6,614 |
| 2018 | 738 | #424 | 11 | #7,394 |
| 2017 | 648 | #480 | 14 | #6,199 |
| 2016 | 595 | #523 | 12 | #6,948 |
| 2015 | 446 | #639 | 8 | #9,187 |
| 2014 | 480 | #606 | 14 | #6,162 |
| 2013 | 443 | #636 | 16 | #5,538 |
| 2012 | 380 | #729 | 13 | #6,504 |
| 2011 | 319 | #830 | 12 | #6,819 |
| 2010 | 240 | #1,043 | 16 | #5,617 |
| 2009 | 184 | #1,316 | 14 | #6,288 |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,383 | 17 | #5,378 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,685 | 6 | #11,706 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,337 | 10 | #7,744 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,592 | 6 | #10,831 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,318 | 8 | #8,563 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,454 | 5 | #11,890 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,342 | 6 | #10,089 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,261 | 8 | #7,233 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,268 | 8 | #6,967 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,887 | 6 | #8,495 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,320 | 5 | #9,633 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,858 | 7 | #7,390 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,839 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,776 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,423 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,701 | 5 | #8,849 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,172 | 6 | #7,457 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,043 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,356 | — | — |
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).