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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Kensington is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#632 · 1 in 3,096
- Tennessee#664 · 1 in 3,118
- Pennsylvania#689 · 1 in 3,593
- Virginia#708 · 1 in 3,595
- Maryland#712 · 1 in 3,336
Best ever in a state: #441 in Michigan, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #632 | 13 | 1 in 3,096 |
| Tennessee | #664 | 10 | 1 in 3,118 |
| Pennsylvania | #689 | 14 | 1 in 3,593 |
| Virginia | #708 | 10 | 1 in 3,595 |
| Maryland | #712 | 7 | 1 in 3,336 |
| Massachusetts | #831 | 5 | 1 in 4,922 |
| Indiana | #932 | 6 | 1 in 4,953 |
| Arizona | #934 | 6 | 1 in 4,898 |
| North Carolina | #989 | 8 | 1 in 5,626 |
| Illinois | #1,021 | 9 | 1 in 5,948 |
| Ohio | #1,051 | 8 | 1 in 6,378 |
| California | #1,085 | 26 | 1 in 7,287 |
| Texas | #1,217 | 20 | 1 in 7,946 |
| Florida | #1,345 | 9 | 1 in 9,454 |
| New York | #1,723 | 7 | 1 in 12,384 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 8,062 of them was named Kensington, which outranked 93.7% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,145Patience213
- #1,145Rowyn213
- #1,149Maylee212
- #1,150Kensington211
- #1,150Beatrix211
- #1,150Darcy211
- #1,150Heather211
- #1,155Aila210
- #1,155Julianne210
- #1,155Kinzley210
Tied with 4 names at #1,150; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 100,898 of them was named Kensington, which outranked 63.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,918Zaylon19
- #4,918Zyier19
- #4,918Zylan19
- #5,106Kensington18
- #5,106Abrahim18
- #5,106Adir18
- #5,106Adlai18
- #5,320Abdulhadi17
- #5,320Achilleus17
- #5,320Adien17
Tied with 213 names at #5,106; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.