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Kyndal vs Kynsley

American parents have registered 4,827 Kyndals since 1880, against 984 Kynsleys. But in 2025 it was Kynsley that was commoner, 44 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyndal against Kynsley, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyndal Kynsley

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 48 years in which either name was published, Kyndal for 45 years and Kynsley for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyndal Kynsley
Total US births 4,827984
Most in one year 28290
Babies in 2025 3944
Estimated living today 4,800980
Median age today 168
Peak year 20112018
Best rank 934th girls2,113th girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th3,459th
First recorded 19691999
Girls / boys 4,688 / 139984 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Kyndals alive today are over 16; half the Kynsleys are over 8. That is 8 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: Kyndal and Kynsley.