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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,930 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 93.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,374Rosalinda175
- #1,374Sawyer175
- #1,380Amerie174
- #1,381Kensley173
- #1,381Audrianna173
- #1,381Jaya173
- #1,381Leena173
- #1,386Ellison172
- #1,386Lilyann172
- #1,386Xochitl172
Tied with 4 names at #1,381; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 120,009 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 64.1% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,067Zalen18
- #5,067Zeno18
- #5,067Zyere18
- #5,249Kensley17
- #5,249Aahil17
- #5,249Aashrith17
- #5,249Abrahim17
- #5,487Aarin16
- #5,487Aarion16
- #5,487Aarya16
Tied with 237 names at #5,249; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.