# Kenley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kenley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “a man's name”, “woodland clearing” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kinley, Kynlee |
| US babies named this | 8,451 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,161 / 7,290 (86% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 162, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* Shortened from McKenley, variant of McKinley * Habitational from Old English Cena (“a man's name”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 599 | 494 |
| 2012 | 614 | 499 |
| 2013 | 548 | 542 |
| 2014 | 544 | 563 |
| 2015 | 431 | 662 |
| 2016 | 369 | 772 |
| 2017 | 368 | 757 |
| 2018 | 280 | 949 |
| 2019 | 245 | 1,047 |
| 2020 | 173 | 1,288 |
| 2021 | 146 | 1,471 |
| 2022 | 144 | 1,512 |
| 2023 | 144 | 1,504 |
| 2024 | 148 | 1,477 |
| 2025 | 127 | 1,638 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | 2,878 |
| 2012 | 36 | 3,145 |
| 2013 | 26 | 3,910 |
| 2014 | 31 | 3,506 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,409 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,548 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,416 |
| 2018 | 20 | 4,846 |
| 2019 | 23 | 4,414 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4,493 |
| 2021 | 19 | 5,028 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,238 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,945 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,655 |
| 2025 | 18 | 5,314 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20 | 1,241 |
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Kenley

- Kenley Jansen, Curaçaoan professional baseball player (born 1987)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.