Kensley

#741 for girls in 2025, 367 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 96.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2018 · 738 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
8,948
since 1987

Kensley over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kensley has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202014peak #424, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#741367#5,60816
2024#744378#5,06719
2023#753374#6,22014
2022#614485#5,63316
2021#563544#7,58710
2020#454680#5,45116
2019#477656#6,40613
2018#424738#7,13611
2017#480648#6,06014
2016#523595#6,72612
2015#638446#8,7448
2014#606480#5,99714
2013#634443#5,40416
2012#729380#6,30613
2011#829319#6,57812
2010#1,042240#5,47816
2009#1,314184#6,09514
2008#1,381173#5,24917
2007#1,679131#10,9216
2006#2,32881#7,42710
2005#2,58066#10,1516
2004#2,30975#8,1438
2003#2,43967#10,8945
2002#2,33169#9,3926
2001#2,84451
2000#3,27141
1999#3,63933
1998#3,22238#6,8438
1997#3,22436#6,6188
1996#3,83128#7,9716
1995#5,22118#8,8685
1994#5,71316#6,9687
1993#6,62213
1992#7,51211
1991#6,25314
1990#9,2478#8,1175
1989#8,7618#6,9416
1988#10,3866
1987#7,9878
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First appearance
1987

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2018 at #424 (738 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,305
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 55.3% of all girls named Kensley (4,945) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s22#7,987 (1987)#9,045
1990s215#3,222 (1998)#5,448
2000s938#1,314 (2009)#2,248
2010s4,945#424 (2018)#638
2020s2,828#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 2014

girls
#606
480 births · 1 in 3,722 girls
boys
#5,997
14 births · 1 in 137,205 boys

Top girls' names in 2014

  1. #1Emma20,970
  2. #2Olivia19,840
  3. #3Sophia18,644
  4. #4Isabella17,136
  5. #5Ava15,727
  6. #6Mia13,534
  7. #7Emily12,670
  8. #8Abigail12,114
  9. #9Madison10,333
  10. #10Charlotte10,123
  11. #606Kensley480

Top boys' names in 2014

  1. #1Noah19,344
  2. #2Liam18,488
  3. #3Mason17,225
  4. #4Jacob16,923
  5. #5William16,851
  6. #6Ethan15,749
  7. #7Michael15,505
  8. #8Alexander15,449
  9. #9James14,464
  10. #10Daniel13,961
  11. #5,997Kensley14
More about 2014

girls

1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 3,722 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 96.8% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kensley
  1. #603Frances484
  2. #604Shiloh482
  3. #605Saige481
  4. #606Kensley480
  5. #606Rosa480
  6. #608Mira479
  7. #609Elyse477
  8. #609Meredith477

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2013
Risers
  1. 3,632Aranza#4,243#611
  2. 576Montserrat#1,148#572
  3. 573Monserrat#1,165#592
  4. 463Maisie#1,116#653
  5. 419Ariadne#1,220#801
Fallers
  1. 401Miley#386#787
  2. 345Karly#988#1,333
  3. 318Britney#838#1,156
  4. 239Kaya#761#1,000
  5. 235Rihanna#938#1,173

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 137,205 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 57.4% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kensley
  1. #5,733Zorion15
  2. #5,733Zvi15
  3. #5,733Zyire15
  4. #5,997Kensley14
  5. #5,997Abdalrahman14
  6. #5,997Abdikadir14
  7. #5,997Abdimalik14
  8. #6,307Aarian13
  9. #6,307Abdulhadi13
  10. #6,307Abem13

Tied with 309 names at #5,997; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2013
Risers
  1. 645Bode#1,427#782
  2. 624Axl#1,459#835
  3. 427Gannon#841#414
  4. 326Bodie#1,305#979
  5. 316Royal#886#570
Fallers
  1. 291Bently#897#1,188
  2. 261Damion#849#1,110
  3. 249Amare#598#847
  4. 241Isiah#816#1,057
  5. 241Jesiah#999#1,240

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2014