Kinslee

What Kinslee means

Variant of Kinsley, meaning “Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland…

spelling variant of Kinsley || From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man's name)”) + -s (“'s”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Kinslee” (revision 79275564) and “Kinsley” (revision 86139913), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Kinslee?

US: Falling: down from #748 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 455 girls got the name (#651 that year). First in the US records in 1997.

How common

• About 1 in 5,975 baby girls in the US 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 WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.9 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.57 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Kinslee is #955 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kinslee were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kinsley2,671 US · 7 E&W
• Kensley367 US
• Kinzley102 US
• Kynslee85 US
• Kinzlee72 US
• Kenzlee56 US
• Kenslee46 US
• Kynsley44 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 Kinslee

Girls

• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Hadlee#928Variant of Hadley, meaning “heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Karsyn#718Editor’s note Used for both: 70% of US babies named Karsyn in 2025 were girls
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025

For a brother

• Holden#297Editor’s note Steady in the US: #291 in 2015 and #297 in 2025
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Bryson#152Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #152 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Camden#205“enclosure + valley”^*
• Kamden#717Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1986, with 6 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kinslee’s. Rank is US 2025.