Kinsey
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births · Last seen for boys in 2015 at #12,086
Given to girls 96.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 255 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,818since 1968
Kinsey over time
Rank among girls' names. Kinsey has never cracked the top 800 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,568 | 138 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,371 | 171 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,366 | 173 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,034 | 241 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 | — | |
| 2011 | #842 | 313 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #951 | 269 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #1,040 | 250 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #1,080 | 242 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #951 | 285 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #903 | 294 | — | |
| 2005 | #979 | 250 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,023 | 228 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #984 | 234 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,014 | 214 | — | |
| 2001 | #860 | 265 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #874 | 252 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #884 | 242 | — | |
| 1998 | #835 | 255 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,053 | 181 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #908 | 216 | — | |
| 1995 | #953 | 197 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #965 | 192 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #983 | 188 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #955 | 201 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #1,065 | 170 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #1,237 | 134 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #1,540 | 92 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,545 | 82 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #1,638 | 72 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,727 | 66 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #1,608 | 69 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kinsey! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kinsey is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Montana#113 · 1 in 358
- Kansas#319 · 1 in 1,619
- Kentucky#319 · 1 in 1,854
- Indiana#399 · 1 in 2,363
- South Carolina#433 · 1 in 2,398
Best ever in a state: #113 in Montana, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #113 | 8 | 1 in 358 |
| Kansas | #319 | 8 | 1 in 1,619 |
| Kentucky | #319 | 11 | 1 in 1,854 |
| Indiana | #399 | 14 | 1 in 2,363 |
| South Carolina | #433 | 7 | 1 in 2,398 |
| Iowa | #455 | 5 | 1 in 2,812 |
| Oklahoma | #460 | 7 | 1 in 2,415 |
| Mississippi | #475 | 5 | 1 in 2,436 |
| Missouri | #500 | 9 | 1 in 3,299 |
| Colorado | #515 | 8 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Virginia | #519 | 10 | 1 in 3,391 |
| Georgia | #520 | 13 | 1 in 3,426 |
| Tennessee | #523 | 9 | 1 in 3,392 |
| Alabama | #550 | 6 | 1 in 3,475 |
| Arizona | #581 | 9 | 1 in 3,246 |
| Minnesota | #666 | 5 | 1 in 5,054 |
| North Carolina | #732 | 8 | 1 in 5,261 |
| Michigan | #804 | 8 | 1 in 6,440 |
| Texas | #831 | 24 | 1 in 5,977 |
| Florida | #835 | 12 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Ohio | #850 | 8 | 1 in 7,703 |
| California | #1,431 | 16 | 1 in 13,814 |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 Kinsey
- 678 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #3,067)
- 1,249 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #3,067)
- 1,701 spots since 2015 (#1,366 → #3,067)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 1998 (#1,053 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 2012 (#842 → #1,018)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #835 (255 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1992–1996
- Highest: 1 in 5,620 girls born in 2011 were named Kinsey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #835 in 1998, was only 1 in 6,929 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.2% of all girls named Kinsey (2,514) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 87 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,325 |
| 1980s | 674 | #1,540 (1989) | #1,781 |
| 1990s | 1,976 | #835 (1998) | #984 |
| 2000s | 2,514 | #860 (2001) | #971 |
| 2010s | 2,001 | #842 (2011) | #1,307 |
| 2020s | 561 | #1,677 (2022) | #2,147 |
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.
Kinsey in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 6,929 of them was named Kinsey, which outranked 95.0% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).