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
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 473 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,709since 1907
Kingsley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,710 | 119 | #1,095 | 196 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | #983 | 229 |
| 2023 | #1,391 | 161 | #849 | 286 |
| 2022 | #1,190 | 202 | #738 | 350 |
| 2021 | #1,095 | 226 | #702 | 376 |
| 2020 | #1,050 | 238 | #625 | 429 |
| 2019 | #1,755 | 117 | #643 | 418 |
| 2018 | #1,925 | 103 | #643 | 403 |
| 2017 | #1,505 | 147 | #653 | 394 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 | #584 | 473 |
| 2015 | #1,758 | 119 | #749 | 323 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | #760 | 309 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | #927 | 220 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | #863 | 244 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #991 | 196 |
| 2010 | #3,470 | 46 | #980 | 201 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #1,755 | 87 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #2,028 | 69 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,881 | 39 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #2,470 | 40 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | — | #2,674 | 34 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | — | #2,399 | 31 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | — | #2,553 | 26 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,206 | 31 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | — | #1,975 | 29 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,036 | 26 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,017 | 26 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,890 | 29 |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,430 | 12 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,190 | 14 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,169 | 13 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,738 | 16 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,399 | 25 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,042 | 13 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,821 | 15 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,322 | 10 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,712 | 16 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #1,995 | 14 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,452 | 11 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,486 | 12 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,336 | 13 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,624 | 21 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,043 | 14 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,975 | 11 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,945 | 9 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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| 1907 | — | #1,094 | 7 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 2016 at #584 (473 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2010–2024
- 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%)
- 47.4% of all boys named Kingsley (3,181) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 7 | #1,094 (1907) | #1,094 |
| 1910s | 97 | #1,624 (1919) | #2,126 |
| 1920s | 101 | #1,894 (1924) | #2,900 |
| 1930s | 81 | #1,712 (1939) | #2,716 |
| 1940s | 129 | #1,399 (1943) | #2,162 |
| 1950s | 101 | #2,190 (1957) | #2,597 |
| 1960s | 75 | #2,858 (1963) | #3,230 |
| 1970s | 128 | #2,216 (1973) | #2,995 |
| 1980s | 249 | #1,890 (1982) | #2,277 |
| 1990s | 283 | #2,128 (1992) | #2,689 |
| 2000s | 411 | #1,755 (2009) | #2,945 |
| 2010s | 3,181 | #584 (2016) | #779 |
| 2020s | 1,866 | #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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 32,019 of them was named Kingsley, which outranked 84.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,006Ripley56
- #3,006Simona56
- #3,006Vaishnavi56
- #3,040Kingsley55
- #3,040Adysen55
- #3,040Alyah55
- #3,040Ameena55
- #3,094Adalynne54
- #3,094Adrielle54
- #3,094Ailey54
Tied with 53 names at #3,040; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 7,774 of them was named Kingsley, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #857Thiago246
- #861Mike245
- #861Vaughn245
- #863Kingsley244
- #863Brecken244
- #863Deangelo244
- #863Heath244
- #868Arnav243
- #868Damari243
- #868Frankie243
Tied with 4 names at #863; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.