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Kynleigh vs Kynslee

American parents have registered 2,147 Kynslees since 1880, against 1,997 Kynleighs. Kynslee is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kynleigh Kynslee

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 26 years in which either name was published, Kynleigh for 15 years and Kynslee for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kynleigh Kynslee
Total US births 1,9972,147
Most in one year 189200
Babies in 2025 3585
Estimated living today 2,0002,100
Median age today 108
Peak year 20142018
Best rank 1,270th girls1,192nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th2,173rd
First recorded 19992003
Girls / boys 1,997 / 02,147 / 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 Kynleighs alive today are over 10; half the Kynslees are over 8. 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: Kynleigh and Kynslee.