Meaning not yet researched.
Kinley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 409 in 2025. Its best rank was #180 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #180 in 2012; #692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kinley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#692 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #180.
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Kinley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 409 girls in 2025. Peak: #180 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 1,750 (2012).
In 2025, 409 US girls were named Kinley, making it the 692nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 74 places from #618 in 2024. That is 76 fewer than the 485 girls named Kinley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #180, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,750. For comparison, it was #235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kinley in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 20,313 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,485 babies named Kinley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,332 US girls were named Kinley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,248. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,930 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kinley ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #194 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenley (8,451 babies since 1880), Kynlee (6,242 babies since 1880), Kinlee (2,681 babies since 1880) and Kenlee (2,270 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kenly, Kynley and Kinnley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kenly (644), Kynley (549), Kinnley (373), Kynlei (199), Kenlei (187), Kennley (175), Kynlea (123), Kenlea (97), Kinlie (79), Kinly (57), Kinlea (44), Kinlei (33), and more.
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 Kinley 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 9 | #194 | #91 |
| Missouri | 22 | #284 | #128 |
| Indiana | 23 | #312 | #160 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #318 | #68 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #323 | #115 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #350 | — |
| Mississippi | 8 | #366 | #205 |
| Iowa | 9 | #366 | #100 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #378 | #113 |
| Kansas | 9 | #387 | #71 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #394 | #105 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #422 | #103 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #490 | #132 |
| Alabama | 10 | #506 | #238 |
| Colorado | 11 | #520 | #162 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #566 | #185 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #574 | #187 |
| Georgia | 18 | #597 | #293 |
| Ohio | 17 | #606 | #214 |
| Oregon | 5 | #684 | #159 |
| Virginia | 11 | #685 | #247 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #708 | #240 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #711 | #184 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #735 | #254 |
| Texas | 34 | #870 | #264 |
| Illinois | 10 | #889 | #261 |
| Florida | 17 | #938 | #229 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,094 | #898 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,143 | #367 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,149 | #297 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,153 | #203 |
| California | 16 | #1,447 | #599 |
| New York | 8 | #1,595 | #800 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 409 | #692 | — | — |
| 2024 | 485 | #618 | — | — |
| 2023 | 500 | #597 | 6 | #11,618 |
| 2022 | 593 | #526 | 5 | #13,450 |
| 2021 | 617 | #505 | 7 | #10,317 |
| 2020 | 707 | #434 | 7 | #10,138 |
| 2019 | 770 | #407 | 11 | #7,427 |
| 2018 | 984 | #331 | 9 | #8,537 |
| 2017 | 1,019 | #322 | 9 | #8,529 |
| 2016 | 1,248 | #254 | 11 | #7,400 |
| 2015 | 1,408 | #235 | 9 | #8,418 |
| 2014 | 1,619 | #209 | 13 | #6,489 |
| 2013 | 1,560 | #208 | 12 | #6,844 |
| 2012 | 1,750 | #180 | 19 | #4,954 |
| 2011 | 1,641 | #195 | 25 | #4,054 |
| 2010 | 1,352 | #232 | 16 | #5,623 |
| 2009 | 688 | #453 | 9 | #8,705 |
| 2008 | 462 | #666 | 8 | #9,484 |
| 2007 | 325 | #863 | 8 | #9,380 |
| 2006 | 292 | #908 | 8 | #9,200 |
| 2005 | 241 | #1,012 | 5 | #12,500 |
| 2004 | 233 | #1,014 | 8 | #8,582 |
| 2003 | 203 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2002 | 163 | #1,234 | 9 | #7,377 |
| 2001 | 162 | #1,240 | 10 | #6,733 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,440 | 7 | #8,715 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,439 | 8 | #7,544 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,794 | 9 | #6,597 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,464 | 6 | #8,768 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,184 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,131 | 7 | #7,432 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,892 | 6 | #8,327 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,137 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,601 | 8 | #6,427 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,789 | 5 | #8,959 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,720 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,184 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,877 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,286 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,032 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,254 | 5 | #7,105 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,003 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,450 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,297 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,142 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,522 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,015 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,496 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,505 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,770 |
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).