Kensington

Where Kensington comes from

Kensington hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #10,836 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2008
    Kensington Tallman born
    American actress
  3. 2015
    Peak, #972
    278 babies named Kensington — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,552.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kensington Tallman · American actress, born 2008

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.