Kingsley

Where Kingsley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kingsley.

  • Vowel-ended
Kingsley through the years
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,094 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Kingsley Amis born
    English novelist, poet, critic and teacher
  3. 1996
    Kingsley Coman born
    French footballer
  4. 2016
    Peak, #584
    473 babies named Kingsley, the most in any year.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #983.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.