Kensington
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
Given to girls 94.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 278 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,950since 1997
Kensington 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,510 | 71 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #1,971 | 99 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #1,552 | 136 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #1,332 | 171 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #1,150 | 211 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #1,065 | 241 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #999 | 264 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #972 | 278 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #1,107 | 230 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #1,093 | 224 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,485 | 152 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #1,758 | 116 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #3,214 | 53 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kensington! It came in at #10,836, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kensington
- 460 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,822)
- 1,270 spots since 2020 (#1,552 → #2,822)
- 1,850 spots since 2015 (#972 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 2015 (#1,107 → #972)
- Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2017 (#999 → #1,065)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2015 at #972 (278 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2015–2016
- Highest: 1 in 6,421 girls born in 2015 were named Kensington (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 67.8% of all girls named Kensington (2,001) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45 | #5,039 (1999) | #7,225 |
| 2000s | 399 | #2,568 (2009) | #3,916 |
| 2010s | 2,001 | #972 (2015) | #1,276 |
| 2020s | 505 | #1,552 (2020) | #2,329 |
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.
Kensington in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,712 of them was named Kensington, which outranked 94.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #996Ann265
- #996Antonia265
- #996Chandler265
- #999Kensington264
- #999Esperanza264
- #999Everlee264
- #999Luz264
- #1,005Cordelia263
- #1,005India263
- #1,005Magdalena263
Tied with 5 names at #999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 145,980 of them was named Kensington, which outranked 55.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,053Zed14
- #6,053Zhane14
- #6,053Zymeir14
- #6,349Kensington13
- #6,349Aaryn13
- #6,349Abdalla13
- #6,349Abdou13
- #6,726Aarib12
- #6,726Aashir12
- #6,726Aashrith12
Tied with 376 names at #6,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.