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Kindra vs Kingsley

American parents have registered 8,874 Kingsleys since 1880, against 3,883 Kindras. Kingsley is still ahead, with 315 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kindra against Kingsley, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kindra Kingsley

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 114 years in which either name was published, Kingsley for 68 years and Kindra for 46 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kindra Kingsley
Total US births 3,8838,874
Most in one year 152667
Babies in 2025 6315
Estimated living today 3,7008,400
Median age today 418
Peak year 19872016
Best rank 1,016th girls584th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,095th
First recorded 19521907
Girls / boys 3,883 / 02,165 / 6,709

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 Kindras alive today are over 41; half the Kingsleys are over 8. That is 33 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kindra Kingsley
France 101,095

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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