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
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 1,750 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,959since 1979
Kinley over time
Rank among girls' names. Kinley has never cracked the top 100 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #691 | 409 | — | |
| 2024 | #617 | 485 | — | |
| 2023 | #596 | 500 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #526 | 593 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #505 | 617 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #434 | 707 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #405 | 770 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #331 | 984 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #322 | 1,019 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #254 | 1,248 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #235 | 1,408 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #209 | 1,619 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #208 | 1,560 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #180 | 1,750 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #195 | 1,641 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #232 | 1,352 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #453 | 688 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #665 | 462 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #862 | 325 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #908 | 292 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,014 | 233 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #1,084 | 203 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,228 | 163 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #1,238 | 162 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #1,789 | 87 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
See more about Kinley
- 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)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2012 at #180 (1,750 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- 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%)
- 66.9% of all girls named Kinley (13,351) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 42 | #6,666 (1988) | #7,937 |
| 1990s | 353 | #1,431 (1999) | #5,614 |
| 2000s | 2,897 | #453 (2009) | #989 |
| 2010s | 13,351 | #180 (2012) | #257 |
| 2020s | 3,311 | #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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,659 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 97.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 249,926 of them was named Kinley, which outranked 31.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,825Zyhaire8
- #8,825Zykeem8
- #8,825Zymari8
- #9,714Kinley7
- #9,714Aadav7
- #9,714Aadhan7
- #9,714Aadhavan7
- #10,799Aadiv6
- #10,799Aahaan6
- #10,799Aalim6
Tied with 1,084 names at #9,714; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.