Kenley
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to girls 86.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 599 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,290since 1978
Kenley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #1,500 | 144 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #1,506 | 144 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 146 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #1,287 | 173 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #948 | 280 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #756 | 368 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #772 | 369 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #661 | 431 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #562 | 544 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #541 | 548 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #499 | 614 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #494 | 599 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #500 | 596 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #660 | 447 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #991 | 268 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #1,517 | 152 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #1,672 | 126 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #1,855 | 102 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #1,934 | 91 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #2,487 | 62 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,366 | 16 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
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| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
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| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,247 | 29 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kenley! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kenley
- 159 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,631)
- 344 spots since 2020 (#1,287 → #1,631)
- 970 spots since 2015 (#661 → #1,631)
- Biggest jump: 526 spots in 2008 (#1,517 → #991)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 2018 (#756 → #948)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2011 at #494 (599 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2008–2018
- Highest: 1 in 2,868 girls born in 2012 were named Kenley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,656 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #494 in 2011, was only 1 in 2,937 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 63.0% of all girls named Kenley (4,594) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,376 |
| 1980s | 43 | #6,955 (1989) | #8,906 |
| 1990s | 230 | #2,438 (1999) | #5,873 |
| 2000s | 1,525 | #660 (2009) | #1,710 |
| 2010s | 4,594 | #494 (2011) | #678 |
| 2020s | 882 | #1,287 (2020) | #1,478 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kenley in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 15,089 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 91.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,664Liz127
- #1,664Lucie127
- #1,664Tatiyana127
- #1,672Kenley126
- #1,672Calli126
- #1,672Kaylei126
- #1,672Laisha126
- #1,682Ashlin125
- #1,682Aurelia125
- #1,682Kaylea125
Tied with 9 names at #1,672; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 85,636 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 71.5% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,888Yassin25
- #3,888Yovanny25
- #3,888Zaelyn25
- #4,001Kenley24
- #4,001Abdelrahman24
- #4,001Akshar24
- #4,001Akshat24
- #4,105Aeneas23
- #4,105Aleksei23
- #4,105Anthany23
Tied with 103 names at #4,001; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.