Kensley
#741 for girls in 2025, 367 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 96.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 738 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,948since 1987
Kensley over time
Rank among girls' names. Kensley has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #741 | 367 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #744 | 378 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #753 | 374 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #614 | 485 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #563 | 544 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #454 | 680 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #477 | 656 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #424 | 738 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #480 | 648 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #523 | 595 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #638 | 446 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #606 | 480 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #634 | 443 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #729 | 380 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #829 | 319 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #1,042 | 240 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #1,314 | 184 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #1,381 | 173 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #1,679 | 131 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #2,328 | 81 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kensley! It came in at #7,987, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1990, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kensley
- 3 spots since 2024 (#744 → #741)
- 287 spots since 2020 (#454 → #741)
- 103 spots since 2015 (#638 → #741)
- Biggest jump: 213 spots in 2011 (#1,042 → #829)
- Biggest drop: 139 spots in 2023 (#614 → #753)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2018 at #424 (738 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,305 girls born in 2018 were named Kensley (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,379 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 55.3% of all girls named Kensley (4,945) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 22 | #7,987 (1987) | #9,045 |
| 1990s | 215 | #3,222 (1998) | #5,448 |
| 2000s | 938 | #1,314 (2009) | #2,248 |
| 2010s | 4,945 | #424 (2018) | #638 |
| 2020s | 2,828 | #454 (2020) | #645 |
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.
Kensley in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 217,329 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 39.8% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,353Zana9
- #7,353Zanetta9
- #7,353Zeina9
- #7,987Kensley8
- #7,987Aarin8
- #7,987Adrena8
- #7,987Africa8
- #8,778Aarti7
- #8,778Aasha7
- #8,778Abilene7
Tied with 790 names at #7,987; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.