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Kinsley vs Kinzlee

American parents have registered 50,243 Kinsleys since 1880, against 1,540 Kinzlees. Kinsley is still ahead, with 2,683 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kinsley 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

Kinsley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Kinsley had 386 and Kinzlee had 19.

Side by side

  Kinsley Kinzlee
Total US births 50,2431,540
Most in one year 4,066136
Babies in 2025 2,68372
Estimated living today 50,0001,500
Median age today 78
Peak year 20172016
Best rank 59th girls1,614th girls
Rank in 2025 93rd2,458th
First recorded 19782005
Girls / boys 50,016 / 2271,540 / 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: Kinsley and Kinzlee.