How Many People Are Named Kinsley?

49,930

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

About 1 in 6,845 people in the US has this name

Based on 50,243 babies named Kinsley in Social Security records from 1978 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#923

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#472

See the top 100

Peak Year

2017

4,066 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: KINZ-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From a surname which was derived from the given name CYNESIGE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

Cynesige

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.6%
Male
0.5%

Almost all of the babies given the name Kinsley (99.6%) were girls. The share of girls among babies named Kinsley rose from 79.7% in the 1980s to 99.6% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kinsley alive today is about 8 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 10 in 2025.

Under 30 49,608
99.4%
30 to 59 322
0.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kinsley first appears in the records in 1978 and was given most often in 2017, to 4,066 babies. In 2025, 2,683 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1978 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kinsley never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #57, in 2021, and it was in the top 100 for 10 years, 2016 to 2025. In 2025 it ranked #93.

Girls
Rank in 2025#93
Best rank#57 (2021)
Years in the top 10010 (2016 to 2025)
Rank in its biggest decade#125 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Kinsley were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,357 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kinsley was given 2.8 times as often in Mississippi, 2.7 times in West Virginia and 2.5 times in South Dakota.

Texas 4,357
Florida 2,556
California 2,415
Georgia 2,415
North Carolina 2,356
Ohio 2,262
Tennessee 1,914
Michigan 1,737
Pennsylvania 1,711
Missouri 1,403
South Carolina 1,403
Virginia 1,386
Alabama 1,384
Indiana 1,366
Illinois 1,329
New York 1,228
Louisiana 1,223
Kentucky 1,222
Wisconsin 1,143
Mississippi 1,012
Washington 1,004
Minnesota 949
Arizona 917
Oklahoma 819
Colorado 782
Kansas 770
Maryland 738
Arkansas 681
Iowa 670
Oregon 553
West Virginia 550
Massachusetts 485
Nebraska 476
New Jersey 391
Utah 390
Idaho 330
Connecticut 285
Nevada 284
South Dakota 260
New Hampshire 243
Maine 235
North Dakota 204
Montana 194
New Mexico 154
Delaware 124
Alaska 109
Vermont 79
Hawaii 77
Rhode Island 77
Wyoming 64
District of Columbia 12

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