Kingsley

What Kingsley means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kingsley yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #329 vs #1,095 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kingsley?

US: Falling: down from #749 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #536 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 473 boys got the name (#584 that year). First in the US records in 1907.

How common

• About 1 in 8,715 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,108 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MD (0.35 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.22 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.2 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kingsley is #1095 in the US and #329 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 62.2% of US babies named Kingsley were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kingslee11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kingsley

Boys

• Colt#285From the word “colt”^*
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Vera#205“faith”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kingsley’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.