How Many People Are Named Kensington?

3,090

people named Kensington are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 110,609 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,112 babies named Kensington in Social Security records from 1997 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,083

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,860

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Peak Year

2015

292 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
94.8%
Male
5.2%

Of the babies given the name Kensington, 94.8% were girls and 5.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 2000s: 95.7% of the babies were girls then and 93% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kensington alive today is about 10 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 13 in 2025.

Under 30 3,090
100%
30 to 59 0
0%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kensington first appears in the records in 1997 and was given most often in 2015, to 292 babies. In 2025, 60 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1997 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kensington has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #974, in 2015. In 2025 it ranked #2,839.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,839
Best rank#974 (2015)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,219 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Kensington alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Kensington were born in California than in any other state: about 273 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kensington was given 2.4 times as often in Michigan, 2.4 times in Ohio and 1.8 times in Virginia.

California 273
Texas 186
Ohio 158
Florida 125
Michigan 122
North Carolina 84
Virginia 82
Georgia 74
New York 70
Illinois 66
Tennessee 62
Arizona 60
Pennsylvania 54
Indiana 53
Washington 49
Colorado 36
Maryland 28
South Carolina 27
Utah 26
Wisconsin 26
Kentucky 23
Kansas 19
Oklahoma 17
Alabama 16
Minnesota 15
Missouri 15
Massachusetts 12
Iowa 5
Connecticut 5

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