Meaning not yet researched.
Kinsey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #835 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #835 in 1998; #3,086 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kinsey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,086 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #835.
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Kinsey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #835 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 313 (2011).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Kinsey, making it the 3,086th most common girls’ name of the year, down 684 places from #2,402 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 76 girls named Kinsey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #835, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 313, in 2011. For comparison, it was #1,369 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kinsey in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 8,113 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,566 babies named Kinsey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,090 US girls were named Kinsey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kensey, Kinzey and Kinzy 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kensey (925), Kinzey (447), Kinzy (232), Kensy (177), Kensei (46), Kynsey (23), Kinsee (22).
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 Kinsey 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 | 53 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2015 | 173 | #1,369 | 5 | #13,154 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2013 | 241 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 2012 | 248 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2011 | 313 | #843 | 6 | #11,642 |
| 2010 | 269 | #953 | 11 | #7,360 |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,044 | 9 | #8,706 |
| 2008 | 242 | #1,080 | 7 | #10,535 |
| 2007 | 285 | #956 | 7 | #10,399 |
| 2006 | 294 | #904 | — | — |
| 2005 | 250 | #980 | 6 | #10,862 |
| 2004 | 228 | #1,024 | 6 | #10,740 |
| 2003 | 234 | #988 | — | — |
| 2002 | 214 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2001 | 265 | #863 | 6 | #9,986 |
| 2000 | 252 | #878 | 11 | #6,147 |
| 1999 | 242 | #884 | — | — |
| 1998 | 255 | #835 | — | — |
| 1997 | 181 | #1,054 | 6 | #8,769 |
| 1996 | 216 | #911 | — | — |
| 1995 | 197 | #954 | 5 | #9,658 |
| 1994 | 192 | #966 | 8 | #6,716 |
| 1993 | 188 | #985 | 10 | #5,594 |
| 1992 | 201 | #957 | 5 | #9,197 |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,067 | 5 | #8,961 |
| 1990 | 134 | #1,240 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,545 | 10 | #5,016 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,610 | 5 | #7,957 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,551 | 9 | #4,771 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,734 | 7 | #5,477 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,740 | 9 | #4,395 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,617 | 10 | #4,026 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,169 | 14 | #3,207 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,743 | 12 | #3,520 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,505 | 5 | #6,580 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,715 | 9 | #4,017 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,682 | 6 | #5,518 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,927 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,136 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,110 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,568 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,265 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,299 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,144 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,273 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,243 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,785 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,795 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,956 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,122 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,567 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,948 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,771 |
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).