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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Kensley is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#201 · 1 in 685
- Louisiana#330 · 1 in 1,219
- Alabama#376 · 1 in 1,439
- Maryland#395 · 1 in 1,487
- Kentucky#477 · 1 in 1,943
Best ever in a state: #90 in Alabama, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #201 | 13 | 1 in 685 |
| Louisiana | #330 | 14 | 1 in 1,219 |
| Alabama | #376 | 13 | 1 in 1,439 |
| Maryland | #395 | 14 | 1 in 1,487 |
| Kentucky | #477 | 9 | 1 in 1,943 |
| Missouri | #491 | 12 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Georgia | #493 | 21 | 1 in 2,167 |
| North Carolina | #511 | 20 | 1 in 2,311 |
| South Carolina | #571 | 8 | 1 in 2,278 |
| Ohio | #587 | 17 | 1 in 2,753 |
| Tennessee | #612 | 12 | 1 in 2,668 |
| Pennsylvania | #625 | 16 | 1 in 2,896 |
| Illinois | #665 | 14 | 1 in 3,210 |
| Michigan | #682 | 11 | 1 in 3,250 |
| New York | #731 | 22 | 1 in 3,573 |
| Virginia | #733 | 10 | 1 in 3,404 |
| Florida | #777 | 21 | 1 in 4,110 |
| Massachusetts | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,830 |
| Texas | #909 | 33 | 1 in 4,950 |
| Indiana | #917 | 6 | 1 in 4,690 |
| California | #1,107 | 24 | 1 in 6,902 |
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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 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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 4,286 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 95.8% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 90,678 of them was named Kensley, which outranked 64.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,890Zevi20
- #4,890Zoren20
- #4,890Zymeir20
- #5,067Kensley19
- #5,067Aayush19
- #5,067Abdou19
- #5,067Aladdin19
- #5,241Abdurahman18
- #5,241Able18
- #5,241Adalberto18
Tied with 173 names at #5,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.