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

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Peak · girls
2011 · 599 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,290
since 1978

Kenley over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202011peak #494, 2011peak #1,247, 1935girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,631127#5,20818
2024#1,472148#6,46913
2023#1,500144#3,88328
2022#1,506144#4,18425
2021#1,469146#4,93619
2020#1,287173#4,42622
2019#1,045245#4,33723
2018#948280#4,73920
2017#756368#5,29717
2016#772369#4,47022
2015#661431#5,28917
2014#562544#3,45631
2013#541548#3,86426
2012#499614#3,11536
2011#494599#2,85241
2010#500596#2,68245
2009#660447#4,03525
2008#991268#4,04425
2007#1,517152#3,79327
2006#1,672126#4,00124
2005#1,681118#4,46419
2004#1,855102#4,12921
2003#1,92594#4,61617
2002#1,93491#6,08811
2001#2,48762#3,51224
2000#2,37465#3,76421
1999#2,43859#5,03513
1998#2,88945#3,84918
1997#4,37024#3,73818
1996#4,30624#4,87812
1995#5,01919#3,85416
1994#5,98415#4,80312
1993#5,95515#3,66117
1992#13,3175#5,6609
1991#5,94915#3,81315
1990#8,5019#3,60716
1989#6,95511#3,20518
1988#9,2447#5,7517
1987#11,3255#4,5739
1986#9,5456#3,44013
1985#8,3187#3,21614
1984#2,70617
1983#8,0477#6,2385
1982#3,48212
1981#6,2625
1980#5,5256
1979#6,18910#3,81010
1978#8,5626#2,79915
1977#2,55617
1976#2,24520
1975#2,63715
1974#2,35817
1973#5,1015
1972#2,99111
1971#2,36616
1970#2,50914
1969#3,5957
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1967#2,61110
1966#3,9485
1965#2,9828
1964#3,6016
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1961#3,0978
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1959#3,6196
1958#3,5596
1957#2,8229
1956#3,5356
1955#3,2017
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1951#3,7145
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1948#3,3166
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1937#2,9057
1936#3,1476
1935#1,24729
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First appearance
1978

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 2011 at #494 (599 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 11 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2008–2018
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,868
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 63.0% of all girls named Kenley (4,594) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
  • Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s16#6,189 (1979)#7,376
1980s43#6,955 (1989)#8,906
1990s230#2,438 (1999)#5,873
2000s1,525#660 (2009)#1,710
2010s4,594#494 (2011)#678
2020s882#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 2011

girls
#494
599 births · 1 in 2,937 girls
boys
#2,852
41 births · 1 in 46,323 boys

Top girls' names in 2011

  1. #1Sophia21,863
  2. #2Isabella19,931
  3. #3Emma18,825
  4. #4Olivia17,335
  5. #5Ava15,518
  6. #6Emily14,277
  7. #7Abigail13,266
  8. #8Madison12,406
  9. #9Mia11,543
  10. #10Chloe11,007
  11. #494Kenley599

Top boys' names in 2011

  1. #1Jacob20,403
  2. #2Mason19,530
  3. #3William17,362
  4. #4Jayden17,019
  5. #5Noah16,883
  6. #6Michael16,823
  7. #7Ethan16,702
  8. #8Alexander15,717
  9. #9Aiden15,520
  10. #10Daniel15,307
  11. #2,852Kenley41
More about 2011

girls

1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 2,937 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 97.5% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kenley
  1. #489Natasha606
  2. #492Nia604
  3. #493Kali602
  4. #494Kenley599
  5. #494Raelynn599
  6. #496Dylan598
  7. #497Briella594
  8. #497Francesca594

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2010
Risers
  1. 814Milania#1,629#815
  2. 554Alianna#1,529#975
  3. 444Hattie#1,438#994
  4. 419Aviana#1,185#766
  5. 414Avianna#1,249#835
Fallers
  1. 1,131Allisson#796#1,927
  2. 350Shaniya#565#915
  3. 346Brisa#464#810
  4. 335Alexus#976#1,311
  5. 273Abigale#909#1,182

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 46,323 of them was named Kenley, which outranked 80.1% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kenley
  1. #2,798Wilber42
  2. #2,798Wilbert42
  3. #2,798Zavien42
  4. #2,852Kenley41
  5. #2,852Abran41
  6. #2,852Akash41
  7. #2,852Alexi41
  8. #2,904Adel40
  9. #2,904Adil40
  10. #2,904Aidin40

Tied with 51 names at #2,852; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2010
Risers
  1. 869Flynn#1,806#937
  2. 601Raylan#1,299#698
  3. 415Brantley#735#320
  4. 405Bowen#1,127#722
  5. 328Crosby#1,068#740
Fallers
  1. 336Jencarlos#928#1,264
  2. 308Keshawn#997#1,305
  3. 284Octavio#928#1,212
  4. 268Talan#976#1,244
  5. 242Antony#956#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2011