Kinsley
#93 for girls in 2025, 2,671 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 3,885 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 50,016since 1978
Kinsley over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
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 | #93 | 2,671 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #85 | 2,937 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #67 | 3,204 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #61 | 3,705 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #57 | 3,885 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #59 | 3,780 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #74 | 3,510 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #63 | 3,881 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #59 | 4,053 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #86 | 3,378 | — | |
| 2015 | #113 | 2,788 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #131 | 2,448 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #161 | 1,981 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #179 | 1,760 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #218 | 1,461 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #307 | 1,046 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #428 | 743 | — | |
| 2008 | #562 | 547 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #757 | 386 | — | |
| 2006 | #881 | 301 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #945 | 262 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,201 | 186 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,235 | 170 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,303 | 150 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,602 | 110 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #3,302 | 35 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,208 | 24 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kinsley! It came in at #6,948, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kinsley is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#194 · 1 in 831
- Georgia#290 · 1 in 1,389
- Alabama#292 · 1 in 1,316
- Kansas#351 · 1 in 1,530
- Tennessee#379 · 1 in 1,828
Best ever in a state: #4 in Mississippi, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #194 | 21 | 1 in 831 |
| Georgia | #290 | 37 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Alabama | #292 | 15 | 1 in 1,316 |
| Kansas | #351 | 9 | 1 in 1,530 |
| Tennessee | #379 | 17 | 1 in 1,828 |
| Kentucky | #459 | 8 | 1 in 2,461 |
| North Carolina | #492 | 18 | 1 in 2,522 |
| Mississippi | #518 | 5 | 1 in 2,315 |
| Missouri | #520 | 10 | 1 in 2,901 |
| Iowa | #546 | 5 | 1 in 2,735 |
| Arkansas | #553 | 5 | 1 in 2,461 |
| Louisiana | #563 | 7 | 1 in 2,812 |
| Oklahoma | #589 | 6 | 1 in 2,779 |
| Virginia | #861 | 7 | 1 in 5,301 |
| Florida | #865 | 15 | 1 in 5,714 |
| Ohio | #939 | 8 | 1 in 7,160 |
| Arizona | #1,143 | 5 | 1 in 7,106 |
| Texas | #1,186 | 19 | 1 in 8,453 |
| Illinois | #1,640 | 5 | 1 in 13,432 |
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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 Kinsley
- 8 spots since 2024 (#85 → #93)
- 34 spots since 2020 (#59 → #93)
- 20 spots since 2015 (#113 → #93)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 2005 (#1,201 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 18 spots in 2024 (#67 → #85)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2021 at #57 (3,885 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 422 girls born in 2021 were named Kinsley (0.24%)
- Latest: 1 in 602 girls born in 2025 (0.17%)
- 52.6% of all girls named Kinsley (26,306) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #6,948 (1978) | #6,948 |
| 1980s | 110 | #4,283 (1987) | #6,848 |
| 1990s | 425 | #1,940 (1999) | #3,270 |
| 2000s | 2,985 | #428 (2009) | #1,036 |
| 2010s | 26,306 | #59 (2017) | #139 |
| 2020s | 20,182 | #57 (2021) | #70 |
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.
Kinsley in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 7,053 of them was named Kinsley, which outranked 95.1% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.