Kenley
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to girls 86.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 599 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,290since 1978
Kenley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #1,500 | 144 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #1,506 | 144 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 146 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #1,287 | 173 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #948 | 280 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #756 | 368 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #772 | 369 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #661 | 431 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #562 | 544 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #541 | 548 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #499 | 614 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #494 | 599 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #500 | 596 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #660 | 447 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #991 | 268 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #1,517 | 152 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #1,672 | 126 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #1,855 | 102 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #1,934 | 91 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #2,487 | 62 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,366 | 16 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
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| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
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| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,247 | 29 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenley! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kenley is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#319 · 1 in 1,199
- Iowa#500 · 1 in 2,026
- Minnesota#561 · 1 in 2,550
- Kansas#581 · 1 in 2,371
- Pennsylvania#605 · 1 in 2,935
Best ever in a state: #76 in North Dakota, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #319 | 9 | 1 in 1,199 |
| Iowa | #500 | 6 | 1 in 2,026 |
| Minnesota | #561 | 9 | 1 in 2,550 |
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 2,371 |
| Pennsylvania | #605 | 17 | 1 in 2,935 |
| Kentucky | #638 | 6 | 1 in 2,916 |
| Wisconsin | #669 | 7 | 1 in 3,113 |
| South Carolina | #759 | 5 | 1 in 3,539 |
| Missouri | #761 | 7 | 1 in 3,656 |
| Ohio | #779 | 12 | 1 in 4,214 |
| North Carolina | #800 | 11 | 1 in 4,082 |
| Alabama | #810 | 5 | 1 in 3,778 |
| Indiana | #903 | 6 | 1 in 4,804 |
| Florida | #965 | 15 | 1 in 5,639 |
| Illinois | #998 | 9 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Arizona | #1,045 | 5 | 1 in 5,724 |
| Virginia | #1,052 | 6 | 1 in 5,881 |
| Tennessee | #1,092 | 5 | 1 in 6,121 |
| New Jersey | #1,148 | 5 | 1 in 7,023 |
| Georgia | #1,179 | 7 | 1 in 6,624 |
| Texas | #1,206 | 21 | 1 in 7,550 |
| New York | #1,709 | 7 | 1 in 12,129 |
| California | #1,844 | 12 | 1 in 15,380 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kenley
- 159 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,631)
- 344 spots since 2020 (#1,287 → #1,631)
- 970 spots since 2015 (#661 → #1,631)
- Biggest jump: 526 spots in 2008 (#1,517 → #991)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 2018 (#756 → #948)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2011 at #494 (599 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2008–2018
- Highest: 1 in 2,868 girls born in 2012 were named Kenley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,656 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #494 in 2011, was only 1 in 2,937 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 63.0% of all girls named Kenley (4,594) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,376 |
| 1980s | 43 | #6,955 (1989) | #8,906 |
| 1990s | 230 | #2,438 (1999) | #5,873 |
| 2000s | 1,525 | #660 (2009) | #1,710 |
| 2010s | 4,594 | #494 (2011) | #678 |
| 2020s | 882 | #1,287 (2020) | #1,478 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenley in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 6,850 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 94.2% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,042Abril246
- #1,042Khalani246
- #1,042Scout246
- #1,045Kenley245
- #1,045Erica245
- #1,045Kaelyn245
- #1,045Lizbeth245
- #1,050Angelique244
- #1,050Claudia244
- #1,050Iyla244
Tied with 4 names at #1,045; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 78,009 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 69.3% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,230Zamar24
- #4,230Zaviyar24
- #4,230Zuri24
- #4,337Kenley23
- #4,337Aadhav23
- #4,337Aadhvik23
- #4,337Abdulloh23
- #4,480Aalijah22
- #4,480Aanav22
- #4,480Abdulmalik22
Tied with 142 names at #4,337; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.