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Kynley vs Kynslee

American parents have registered 2,147 Kynslees since 1880, against 549 Kynleys. Kynslee is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kynley 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 25 years in which either name was published, Kynslee for 21 years and Kynley for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Kynley Kynslee
Total US births 5492,147
Most in one year 53200
Babies in 2025 785
Estimated living today 5502,100
Median age today 118
Peak year 20122018
Best rank 3,134th girls1,192nd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd2,173rd
First recorded 20012003
Girls / boys 549 / 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 Kynleys alive today are over 11; half the Kynslees are over 8. That is 3 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: Kynley and Kynslee.