Kinsley

What Kinsley means

Means “Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”

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

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

How popular is Kinsley?

US: Rising: up from #113 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 3,885 girls got the name (#57 that year). First in the US records in 1978.

How common

• About 1 in 602 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 36,183 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls 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 WV (7.88 per 1,000 girls), ME (6.1 per 1,000 girls), MS (5.96 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Kinsley is #93 in the US and #3333 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Kinsley were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kensley367 US
• Kinslee269 US
• Kinzley102 US
• Kynslee85 US
• Kenzley80 US
• Kinzlee72 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 Kinsley

Girls

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*

For a brother

• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US

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 Kinsley’s. Rank is US 2025.