Kingsley

#1,710 for girls in 2025, 119 births · #1,095 for boys in 2025, 196 births
Given to boys 75.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
#584
2016 · 473 births
Debut · boys
1907
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
6,709
since 1907

Kingsley over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #1,050, 2020peak #584, 2016girlsboys
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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#1,710119#1,095196
2024#1,664123#983229
2023#1,391161#849286
2022#1,190202#738350
2021#1,095226#702376
2020#1,050238#625429
2019#1,755117#643418
2018#1,925103#643403
2017#1,505147#653394
2016#1,693126#584473
2015#1,758119#749323
2014#2,41275#760309
2013#3,26749#927220
2012#3,04055#863244
2011#4,35333#991196
2010#3,47046#980201
2009#4,01338#1,75587
2008#4,44834#2,02869
2007#5,23027#2,76543
2006#7,14217#2,88139
2005#8,33013#3,31930
2004#9,89210#4,79317
2003#13,8446#3,44326
2002#10,2469#2,47040
2001#9,35110#3,32126
2000—#2,67434
1999—#3,59121
1998#14,1225#2,31238
1997#9,0179#3,16023
1996#11,8076#2,83826
1995#13,3865#2,68527
1994#11,7786#2,39232
1993—#2,39931
1992—#2,12836
1991#13,1475#2,82823
1990—#2,55326
1989—#2,20631
1988#10,3866#2,30526
1987—#2,40023
1986#7,1349#2,09627
1985—#1,97529
1984—#2,03626
1983—#2,01726
1982#9,2376#1,89029
1981—#2,41820
1980—#3,43012
1979—#3,16813
1978—#2,92914
1977#9,6525#2,27020
1976—#3,47110
1975—#2,90213
1974—#3,5589
1973—#2,21618
1972—#3,15210
1971—#3,6588
1970—#2,62113
1969—#3,9356
1968—#2,9079
1967—#3,5596
1966—#3,5376
1965—#2,9828
1964—#3,0508
1963—#2,8589
1962—#3,0418
1961—#3,3567
1960—#3,0778
1959—#2,66310
1958—#2,8189
1957—#2,19014
1956—#2,9698
1955—#2,9648
1954—#2,44911
1953—#2,53110
1952—#2,6809
1951—#2,49510
1950—#2,20712
1949—#2,45310
1948—#2,7888
1947—#2,16913
1946—#2,14312
1945—#2,7437
1944—#1,73816
1943—#1,39925
1942—#2,04213
1941—#1,82115
1940—#2,32210
1939—#1,71216
1938—#2,8687
1937—#2,9057
1936—#2,4529
1935—#2,7198
1934—#3,6795
1933——
1932—#1,99514
1931—#3,0957
1930—#3,0228
1929—#2,45211
1928—#4,1515
1927—#2,52311
1926—#3,7086
1925—#2,75510
1924—#1,89418
1923—#3,1758
1922—#2,48612
1921—#3,5177
1920—#2,33613
1919—#1,62421
1918—#2,16514
1917—#2,09114
1916—#2,04314
1915—#2,6219
1914—#1,97511
1913—#1,9459
1912—#2,5445
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five boys were named Kingsley! It came in at #1,094, and was given to 7 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1908–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kingsley
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 112 spots since 2024 (#983 → #1,095)
  • 470 spots since 2020 (#625 → #1,095)
  • 346 spots since 2015 (#749 → #1,095)
  • Biggest jump: 775 spots in 2010 (#1,755 → #980)
  • Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2024 (#849 → #983)
Rise & fade · boys
109 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 2016 at #584 (473 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2010–2024
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,012
  • Highest: 1 in 4,012 boys born in 2016 were named Kingsley (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 8,715 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.4% of all boys named Kingsley (3,181) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s7#1,094 (1907)#1,094
1910s97#1,624 (1919)#2,126
1920s101#1,894 (1924)#2,900
1930s81#1,712 (1939)#2,716
1940s129#1,399 (1943)#2,162
1950s101#2,190 (1957)#2,597
1960s75#2,858 (1963)#3,230
1970s128#2,216 (1973)#2,995
1980s249#1,890 (1982)#2,277
1990s283#2,128 (1992)#2,689
2000s411#1,755 (2009)#2,945
2010s3,181#584 (2016)#779
2020s1,866#625 (2020)#832

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kingsley in 1907

boys
#1,094
7 births · 1 in 20,975 boys

Top boys' names in 1907

  1. #1John8,983
  2. #2William6,904
  3. #3James6,707
  4. #4George4,445
  5. #5Robert4,020
  6. #6Charles3,884
  7. #7Joseph3,844
  8. #8Frank2,943
  9. #9Edward2,576
  10. #10Henry2,203
  11. #1,094Kingsley7
More about 1907

boys

146,826 boys got a published name in 1907; 1 in 20,975 of them was named Kingsley, which outranked 29.4% of the 1,549 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kingsley
  1. #999Winslow8
  2. #999Worth8
  3. #999Young8
  4. #1,094Kingsley7
  5. #1,094Alejandro7
  6. #1,094Alfonse7
  7. #1,094Alfonzo7
  8. #1,200Almond6
  9. #1,200Ann6
  10. #1,200Arley6

Tied with 105 names at #1,094; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 518Leamon#1,253 → #735
  2. ↑ 518Price#1,253 → #735
  3. ↑ 495Quincy#1,111 → #616
  4. ↑ 477Irene#1,111 → #634
  5. ↑ 477Mitchel#1,111 → #634
Fallers
  1. ↓ 636Norval#709 → #1,345
  2. ↓ 593Harper#752 → #1,345
  3. ↓ 560Barton#640 → #1,200
  4. ↓ 547Hurley#798 → #1,345
  5. ↓ 547Lawton#798 → #1,345

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

See the top 100 for 1907 →