# Kinsley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kinsley/  
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 | English |
| Meaning | “royal (a man's name)”, “'s”, “woodland clearing” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 50,243 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 227 / 50,016 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 117, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man's name)”) + -s (“'s”) + 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 | 1,461 | 218 |
| 2012 | 1,760 | 179 |
| 2013 | 1,981 | 161 |
| 2014 | 2,448 | 131 |
| 2015 | 2,788 | 113 |
| 2016 | 3,378 | 86 |
| 2017 | 4,053 | 59 |
| 2018 | 3,881 | 63 |
| 2019 | 3,510 | 74 |
| 2020 | 3,780 | 59 |
| 2021 | 3,885 | 57 |
| 2022 | 3,705 | 61 |
| 2023 | 3,204 | 67 |
| 2024 | 2,937 | 85 |
| 2025 | 2,671 | 93 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 8,491 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,449 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,342 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,333 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,257 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,156 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,515 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6,949 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,428 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,587 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,199 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,765 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,620 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,533 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,020 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2009 | 7 | 2,544 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## 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.