Kensington
- #2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
- Given to girls 94.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 278 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,950since 1997
Kensington 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 | #2,822 | 60 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,510 | 71 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #1,971 | 99 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #1,552 | 136 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #1,332 | 171 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #1,150 | 211 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #1,065 | 241 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #999 | 264 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #972 | 278 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #1,107 | 230 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #1,093 | 224 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,485 | 152 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #1,758 | 116 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #3,214 | 53 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kensington! It came in at #10,836, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Kensington is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#1,127 · 1 in 6,415
- Virginia#1,180 · 1 in 6,748
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #441 in Michigan, 2015.
Show every state
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| Tennessee | #1,127 | 5 | 1 in 6,415 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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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 Kensington
- 1,270 spots since 2020 (#1,552 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 2015
- Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2017
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2015 at #972 (278 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2015–2016
- Highest: 1 in 6,421 girls born in 2015 were named Kensington (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 67.8% of all girls named Kensington (2,001) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 45 | #5,039 (1999) | #7,225 |
| 2000s | 399 | #2,568 (2009) | #3,916 |
| 2010s | 2,001 | #972 (2015) | #1,276 |
| 2020s | 505 | #1,552 (2020) | #2,329 |
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.
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