Meaning not yet researched.
Kinlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,089 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,089 in 2014; #2,500 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kinlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,500 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,089.
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Kinlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,089 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 235 (2014).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Kinlee, making it the 2,500th most common girls’ name of the year, up 309 places from #2,809 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 60 girls named Kinlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,089, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 235. For comparison, it was #1,206 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kinlee in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 17 babies. In all, 2,681 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,763 babies named Kinlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,053 US girls were named Kinlee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 158. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kinlee ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,226 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Kenlee (2,270 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kinlee 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,226 | #646 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,786 | #1,976 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,133 | #1,215 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2017 | 156 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 2015 | 207 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2014 | 235 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,538 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,743 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,657 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,892 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,948 | — | — |
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).