Kinsley

Where Kinsley comes from

From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man's name)”) + -s (“'s”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kinsley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #6,948 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2021
    Peak, #57
    3,885 babies named Kinsley — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Kinsley turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.