Kingsley
Where Kingsley comes from
Kingsley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1907First appearance#1,094 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1922Kingsley Amis bornEnglish novelist, poet, critic and teacher
- 1996Kingsley Coman bornFrench footballer
- 2016Peak, #584473 babies named Kingsley — more than any year before or since.
- 2024The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #983.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Kingsley Amis · English novelist, poet, critic and teacher, 1922–1995
- Kingsley Coman · French footballer, born 1996
- Kingsley Madu · Nigerian footballer, born 1995
- Kingsley Obiekwu · Nigerian footballer, born 1974
- Kingsley Ehizibue · Dutch association football player, born 1995
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.