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Kindall vs Kinsley

American parents have registered 50,243 Kinsleys since 1880, against 641 Kindalls. Kinsley is still ahead, with 2,683 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kindall against Kinsley, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kindall Kinsley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Kinsley for 43 years and Kindall for 10 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Kindall Kinsley
Total US births 64150,243
Most in one year 334,066
Babies in 2025 under 52,683
Estimated living today 63050,000
Median age today 257
Peak year 20082017
Best rank 5,574th girls59th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked93rd
First recorded 19651978
Girls / boys 596 / 4550,016 / 227

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kindalls alive today are over 25; half the Kinsleys are over 7. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kindall and Kinsley.