# Kinsey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kinsey/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,113 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 295 / 7,818 (96% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 54, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 313 | 843 |
| 2012 | 248 | 1,023 |
| 2013 | 241 | 1,036 |
| 2014 | 228 | 1,114 |
| 2015 | 173 | 1,369 |
| 2016 | 171 | 1,376 |
| 2017 | 138 | 1,585 |
| 2018 | 138 | 1,573 |
| 2019 | 82 | 2,243 |
| 2020 | 108 | 1,828 |
| 2021 | 96 | 2,016 |
| 2022 | 125 | 1,680 |
| 2023 | 103 | 1,930 |
| 2024 | 76 | 2,402 |
| 2025 | 53 | 3,086 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | 9,197 |
| 1993 | 10 | 5,594 |
| 1994 | 8 | 6,716 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,658 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,769 |
| 2000 | 11 | 6,147 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,986 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,740 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,862 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,399 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,535 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,706 |
| 2010 | 11 | 7,360 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,642 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,154 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |

## 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.