Kinsey

Where Kinsey comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kinsey.

  • Vowel-ended
Kinsey through the years
  1. 1862
    Kinsey Peile born
    British writer and actor
  2. 1926
    Kinsey Anderson born
    physicist
  3. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 1998
    Peak, #835
    255 babies named Kinsey, its best rank.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,231.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Kinsey Peile · British writer and actor, 1862–1934
  • Kinsey Anderson · physicist, 1926–2012
  • Kinsey Lea Schofield · Reality television personality, writer, born 1985

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