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Kynlee vs Kynsleigh

American parents have registered 6,242 Kynlees since 1880, against 570 Kynsleighs. Kynlee is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kynlee against Kynsleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kynlee Kynsleigh

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

Kynlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1996 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Kynlee had 222 and Kynsleigh had 36.

Side by side

  Kynlee Kynsleigh
Total US births 6,242570
Most in one year 56156
Babies in 2025 15618
Estimated living today 6,200570
Median age today 97
Peak year 20172018
Best rank 552nd girls2,928th girls
Rank in 2025 1,396th6,325th
First recorded 19962008
Girls / boys 6,242 / 0570 / 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 Kynlees alive today are over 9; half the Kynsleighs are over 7. That is 2 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: Kynlee and Kynsleigh.