Kinley

Where Kinley comes from

Shortened from McKinley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kinley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #10,210 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1983
    Kinley Dowling born
    Canadian singer and musician
  4. 1994
    Kinley McNicoll born
    Canadian association football player
  5. 2012
    Peak, #180
    1,750 babies named Kinley — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #405.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Kinley McNicoll · Canadian association football player, born 1994
  • Kinley Dowling · Canadian singer and musician, born 1983

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.