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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,064 of them was named Kingsley, which outranked 91.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,684Shaylee127
- #1,684Sia127
- #1,684Yarely127
- #1,693Kingsley126
- #1,693Alyse126
- #1,693Amarah126
- #1,693Faigy126
- #1,704Cooper125
- #1,704Emme125
- #1,704Hayleigh125
Tied with 10 names at #1,693; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 4,012 of them was named Kingsley, which outranked 95.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.