Kinley
#691 for girls in 2025, 409 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 98.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 1,750 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,959since 1979
Kinley over time
Rank among girls' names. Kinley has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #691 | 409 | — | |
| 2024 | #617 | 485 | — | |
| 2023 | #596 | 500 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #526 | 593 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #505 | 617 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #434 | 707 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #405 | 770 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #331 | 984 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #322 | 1,019 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #254 | 1,248 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #235 | 1,408 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #209 | 1,619 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #208 | 1,560 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #180 | 1,750 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #195 | 1,641 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #232 | 1,352 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #453 | 688 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #665 | 462 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #862 | 325 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #908 | 292 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,014 | 233 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #1,084 | 203 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,228 | 163 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #1,238 | 162 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #1,789 | 87 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kinley! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kinley is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#140 · 1 in 547
- Idaho#266 · 1 in 923
- Oklahoma#269 · 1 in 1,124
- Kansas#315 · 1 in 1,355
- Utah#331 · 1 in 1,405
Best ever in a state: #17 in North Dakota, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #140 | 22 | 1 in 547 |
| Idaho | #266 | 7 | 1 in 923 |
| Oklahoma | #269 | 15 | 1 in 1,124 |
| Kansas | #315 | 10 | 1 in 1,355 |
| Utah | #331 | 13 | 1 in 1,405 |
| Kentucky | #422 | 10 | 1 in 1,948 |
| Tennessee | #446 | 13 | 1 in 2,343 |
| Alabama | #487 | 8 | 1 in 2,421 |
| Mississippi | #517 | 5 | 1 in 2,344 |
| Louisiana | #580 | 7 | 1 in 2,970 |
| Texas | #746 | 36 | 1 in 4,424 |
| Missouri | #751 | 6 | 1 in 4,731 |
| North Carolina | #767 | 10 | 1 in 4,445 |
| Indiana | #805 | 6 | 1 in 5,420 |
| Florida | #1,059 | 11 | 1 in 7,455 |
| Georgia | #1,229 | 6 | 1 in 8,421 |
| Ohio | #1,325 | 5 | 1 in 11,504 |
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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 Kinley
- 74 spots since 2024 (#617 → #691)
- 257 spots since 2020 (#434 → #691)
- 456 spots since 2015 (#235 → #691)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 2010 (#453 → #232)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2019 (#331 → #405)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2012 at #180 (1,750 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,006 girls born in 2012 were named Kinley (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,930 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 66.9% of all girls named Kinley (13,351) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 42 | #6,666 (1988) | #7,937 |
| 1990s | 353 | #1,431 (1999) | #5,614 |
| 2000s | 2,897 | #453 (2009) | #989 |
| 2010s | 13,351 | #180 (2012) | #257 |
| 2020s | 3,311 | #434 (2020) | #562 |
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.
Kinley in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 7,881 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 94.6% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 248,122 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 38.4% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,536Zavior9
- #7,536Zayan9
- #7,536Zhi9
- #8,143Kinley8
- #8,143Aashay8
- #8,143Abass8
- #8,143Abdiaziz8
- #8,927Aasim7
- #8,927Aayan7
- #8,927Abdinasir7
Tied with 783 names at #8,143; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.