Meaning not yet researched.
Kinsley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,671 in 2025. Its best rank was #57 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #57 in 2021; #93 in 2025. About 99.5% of babies named Kinsley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#93 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #57.
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Kinsley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,671 girls in 2025. Peak: #57 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 4,053 (2017).
In 2025, 2,671 US girls were named Kinsley, making it the 93rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #85 in 2024. That is 266 fewer than the 2,937 girls named Kinsley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #57, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,053, in 2017. For comparison, it was #113 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kinsley in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 8 babies. In all, 50,243 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 26,390 babies named Kinsley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 35,004 US girls were named Kinsley; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 4,053. In 2025 that was about 1 in 602 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kinsley ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #19 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 29 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kensley (9,285 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 Kinslie, Kenslei and Kensly are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kinslie (357), Kenslei (306), Kensly (250), Kynzley (199), Kynslei (192), Kinslei (155), Kinzly (109), Kinsly (105), Kinslea (73), Kinsli (46), Kynslea (17), Kinnsley (17), 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 Kinsley 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 53 | #19 | #47 |
| West Virginia | 40 | #19 | #34 |
| Maine | 19 | #41 | #80 |
| Ohio | 150 | #50 | #82 |
| New Hampshire | 19 | #56 | #76 |
| South Dakota | 15 | #57 | #89 |
| Wisconsin | 67 | #62 | #83 |
| Michigan | 104 | #63 | #116 |
| Idaho | 27 | #64 | #88 |
| Louisiana | 51 | #66 | #64 |
| Kentucky | 56 | #66 | #58 |
| North Dakota | 13 | #66 | #47 |
| South Carolina | 55 | #66 | #55 |
| Iowa | 40 | #67 | #60 |
| Pennsylvania | 128 | #69 | #162 |
| Kansas | 38 | #70 | #61 |
| Tennessee | 93 | #71 | #49 |
| Delaware | 10 | #78 | #121 |
| Arkansas | 32 | #78 | #43 |
| Alaska | 8 | #79 | #158 |
| Missouri | 68 | #79 | #78 |
| Indiana | 74 | #79 | #75 |
| Oregon | 39 | #80 | #123 |
| Georgia | 102 | #81 | #68 |
| Vermont | 5 | #84 | — |
| Virginia | 79 | #87 | #92 |
| Minnesota | 58 | #87 | #105 |
| Oklahoma | 39 | #88 | #59 |
| North Carolina | 106 | #95 | #66 |
| Maryland | 43 | #102 | #146 |
| Arizona | 58 | #109 | #185 |
| Alabama | 40 | #112 | #34 |
| Colorado | 47 | #115 | #139 |
| Washington | 55 | #120 | #78 |
| Illinois | 77 | #121 | #158 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #124 | #232 |
| Florida | 144 | #126 | #112 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #132 | — |
| Texas | 222 | #142 | #115 |
| New York | 114 | #143 | #528 |
| Montana | 7 | #156 | #48 |
| Nebraska | 14 | #163 | #60 |
| Nevada | 15 | #172 | #183 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #193 | #147 |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #212 | #241 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #231 | #263 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #258 | #640 |
| California | 127 | #261 | #299 |
| Utah | 15 | #298 | #193 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,671 | #93 | 12 | #7,020 |
| 2024 | 2,937 | #85 | 11 | #7,533 |
| 2023 | 3,204 | #67 | 6 | #11,620 |
| 2022 | 3,705 | #61 | 16 | #5,765 |
| 2021 | 3,885 | #57 | 14 | #6,199 |
| 2020 | 3,780 | #59 | 16 | #5,587 |
| 2019 | 3,510 | #74 | 11 | #7,428 |
| 2018 | 3,881 | #63 | 12 | #6,949 |
| 2017 | 4,053 | #59 | 13 | #6,515 |
| 2016 | 3,378 | #86 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,788 | #113 | 7 | #10,156 |
| 2014 | 2,448 | #131 | 8 | #9,257 |
| 2013 | 1,981 | #161 | 11 | #7,333 |
| 2012 | 1,760 | #179 | 8 | #9,342 |
| 2011 | 1,461 | #218 | 5 | #13,449 |
| 2010 | 1,046 | #307 | 9 | #8,491 |
| 2009 | 743 | #428 | — | — |
| 2008 | 547 | #562 | 6 | #11,910 |
| 2007 | 386 | #758 | — | — |
| 2006 | 301 | #885 | 5 | #13,132 |
| 2005 | 262 | #945 | — | — |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,305 | 5 | #11,692 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,454 | 5 | #11,573 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,011 | 9 | #6,393 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,819 | 5 | #9,659 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,014 | 5 | #9,617 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,467 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,473 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,380 | 5 | #7,605 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,106 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,629 | 6 | #6,001 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,497 | 6 | #5,895 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,821 | 6 | #6,043 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,703 | 5 | #6,820 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,594 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,293 | — | — |
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).