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Kyndra vs Kynsley

American parents have registered 2,404 Kyndras since 1880, against 984 Kynsleys. But in 2025 it was Kynsley that was commoner, 44 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyndra against Kynsley, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyndra 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 60 years in which either name was published, Kyndra for 46 years and Kynsley for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyndra Kynsley
Total US births 2,404984
Most in one year 16390
Babies in 2025 under 544
Estimated living today 2,400980
Median age today 288
Peak year 20072018
Best rank 1,445th girls2,113th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,459th
First recorded 19651999
Girls / boys 2,404 / 0984 / 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 Kyndras alive today are over 28; half the Kynsleys are over 8. That is 20 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: Kyndra and Kynsley.