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Kingsley vs Kinzlee

American parents have registered 8,874 Kingsleys since 1880, against 1,540 Kinzlees. Kingsley is still ahead, with 315 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kingsley Kinzlee

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

Kingsley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1907 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Kingsley had 269 and Kinzlee had 80.

Side by side

  Kingsley Kinzlee
Total US births 8,8741,540
Most in one year 667136
Babies in 2025 31572
Estimated living today 8,4001,500
Median age today 88
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 584th boys1,614th girls
Rank in 2025 1,095th2,458th
First recorded 19072005
Girls / boys 2,165 / 6,7091,540 / 0

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.

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: Kingsley and Kinzlee.