Kinsey

Where Kinsey comes from

Kinsey hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1862
    Kinsey Peile born
    British writer and actor
  2. 1926
    Kinsey Anderson born
    physicist
  3. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1998
    Peak, #835
    255 babies named Kinsey — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,231.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kinsey Peile · British writer and actor, 1862–1934
  • Kinsey Anderson · physicist, 1926–2012
  • Kinsey Lea Schofield · Reality television personality, writer, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.