Kinsey
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births · Last seen for boys in 2015 at #12,086
Given to girls 96.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 255 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,818since 1968
Kinsey over time
Rank among girls' names. Kinsey has never cracked the top 800 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 | #3,067 | 53 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,389 | 76 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,568 | 138 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,371 | 171 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,366 | 173 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,034 | 241 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 | — | |
| 2011 | #842 | 313 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #951 | 269 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #1,040 | 250 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #1,080 | 242 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #951 | 285 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #903 | 294 | — | |
| 2005 | #979 | 250 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,023 | 228 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #984 | 234 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,014 | 214 | — | |
| 2001 | #860 | 265 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #874 | 252 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #884 | 242 | — | |
| 1998 | #835 | 255 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,053 | 181 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #908 | 216 | — | |
| 1995 | #953 | 197 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #965 | 192 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #983 | 188 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #955 | 201 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #1,065 | 170 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #1,237 | 134 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #1,540 | 92 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,545 | 82 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #1,638 | 72 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,727 | 66 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #1,608 | 69 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Kinsey! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kinsey is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kansas#339 · 1 in 1,383
- Nebraska#428 · 1 in 1,665
- Mississippi#436 · 1 in 1,783
- Missouri#539 · 1 in 2,676
- South Carolina#542 · 1 in 2,400
Best ever in a state: #113 in Montana, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #339 | 10 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Nebraska | #428 | 5 | 1 in 1,665 |
| Mississippi | #436 | 7 | 1 in 1,783 |
| Missouri | #539 | 11 | 1 in 2,676 |
| South Carolina | #542 | 8 | 1 in 2,400 |
| Oklahoma | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,492 |
| Louisiana | #612 | 7 | 1 in 2,889 |
| Indiana | #671 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Tennessee | #724 | 8 | 1 in 4,024 |
| Wisconsin | #740 | 6 | 1 in 4,175 |
| Texas | #907 | 31 | 1 in 5,410 |
| Georgia | #942 | 10 | 1 in 5,282 |
| Florida | #988 | 14 | 1 in 6,149 |
| Arizona | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 6,082 |
| Washington | #1,093 | 5 | 1 in 6,429 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 9,224 |
| Ohio | #1,248 | 6 | 1 in 9,398 |
| Michigan | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 8,892 |
| North Carolina | #1,425 | 5 | 1 in 9,616 |
| California | #1,677 | 16 | 1 in 14,334 |
| Illinois | #1,741 | 5 | 1 in 13,245 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kinsey
- 678 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #3,067)
- 1,249 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #3,067)
- 1,701 spots since 2015 (#1,366 → #3,067)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 1998 (#1,053 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 2012 (#842 → #1,018)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #835 (255 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1992–1996
- Highest: 1 in 5,620 girls born in 2011 were named Kinsey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #835 in 1998, was only 1 in 6,929 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.2% of all girls named Kinsey (2,514) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 87 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,325 |
| 1980s | 674 | #1,540 (1989) | #1,781 |
| 1990s | 1,976 | #835 (1998) | #984 |
| 2000s | 2,514 | #860 (2001) | #971 |
| 2010s | 2,001 | #842 (2011) | #1,307 |
| 2020s | 561 | #1,677 (2022) | #2,147 |
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.
Kinsey in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 7,814 of them was named Kinsey, which outranked 94.7% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 291,450 of them was named Kinsey, which outranked 32.5% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,019Zykel8
- #9,019Zylon8
- #9,019Zyrion8
- #9,871Kinsey7
- #9,871Abdishakur7
- #9,871Abdulhadi7
- #9,871Abdulkarim7
- #11,037Aadam6
- #11,037Aariv6
- #11,037Aaroosh6
Tied with 1,165 names at #9,871; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.