Kinley

#691 for girls in 2025, 409 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 98.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2012 · 1,750 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
19,959
since 1979

Kinley over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Kinley has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #180, 2012girls
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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#691409
2024#617485
2023#596500#10,8216
2022#526593#12,3305
2021#505617#9,7147
2020#434707#9,5547
2019#405770#7,17311
2018#331984#8,1549
2017#3221,019#8,1409
2016#2541,248#7,15711
2015#2351,408#8,0409
2014#2091,619#6,30713
2013#2081,560#6,60312
2012#1801,750#4,86219
2011#1951,641#3,99425
2010#2321,352#5,47816
2009#453688#8,3109
2008#665462#9,0198
2007#862325#8,9158
2006#908292#8,7328
2005#1,011241#11,4725
2004#1,014233#8,1438
2003#1,084203
2002#1,228163#7,0559
2001#1,238162#6,44510
2000#1,431128#8,2097
1999#1,431122#7,1398
1998#1,78987#6,3149
1997#2,45053#8,1106
1996#5,06519
1995#5,01919#6,9927
1994#7,60411#7,7706
1993#8,7199
1992#5,48417#6,1288
1991#9,3368#8,2365
1990#9,2478
1989#8,7618
1988#6,66611
1987#8,7787
1986#8,5237
1985#6,9559#6,5235
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1968#4,1365
1967#2,7609
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five girls were named Kinley! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1979–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 74 spots since 2024 (#617#691)
  • 257 spots since 2020 (#434#691)
  • 456 spots since 2015 (#235#691)
  • Biggest jump: 221 spots in 2010 (#453#232)
  • Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2019 (#331#405)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2012 at #180 (1,750 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,006
  • Highest: 1 in 1,006 girls born in 2012 were named Kinley (0.10%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,930 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 66.9% of all girls named Kinley (13,351) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#10,210 (1979)#10,210
1980s42#6,666 (1988)#7,937
1990s353#1,431 (1999)#5,614
2000s2,897#453 (2009)#989
2010s13,351#180 (2012)#257
2020s3,311#434 (2020)#562

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.

Kinley in 2019

girls
#405
770 births · 1 in 2,180 girls
boys
#7,173
11 births · 1 in 163,111 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #405Kinley770

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #7,173Kinley11
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 2,180 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 97.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kinley
  1. #402Blair771
  2. #402Lilith771
  3. #402Rosemary771
  4. #405Kinley770
  5. #405Amanda770
  6. #405Daniella770
  7. #408Maliyah766
  8. #409Collins765
  9. #410Kaylani763

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

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

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

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 163,111 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 49.2% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kinley
  1. #6,777Ziair12
  2. #6,777Zinedine12
  3. #6,777Zohaan12
  4. #7,173Kinley11
  5. #7,173Aarion11
  6. #7,173Aashrith11
  7. #7,173Abdalrahman11
  8. #7,643Aadith10
  9. #7,643Aaliyan10
  10. #7,643Aaris10

Tied with 469 names at #7,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

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

See the top 100 for 2019