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Kingston vs Kinzlee

American parents have registered 46,599 Kingstons since 1880, against 1,540 Kinzlees. Kingston is still ahead, with 1,725 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kingston against Kinzlee, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kingston 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

Kingston has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Kingston had 85 and Kinzlee had 7.

Side by side

  Kingston Kinzlee
Total US births 46,5991,540
Most in one year 3,422136
Babies in 2025 1,72572
Estimated living today 46,0001,500
Median age today 88
Peak year 20212016
Best rank 112th boys1,614th girls
Rank in 2025 204th2,458th
First recorded 19192005
Girls / boys 193 / 46,4061,540 / 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: Kingston and Kinzlee.