Kinsey

Kinsey is the 2,329th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,228 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,600.

By the numbers

People: 15,228
Rank: 2,329th
How common: 1 in 19,600
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

From Old English personal name Cynesige, from cyne- (“royal”) + siġe (“victory”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kinsey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.7%
Black, not Hispanic 17.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956)American sexologist
Angela Kinsey (born 1971)American actress
Dan Kinsey (1902–1970)American athlete
Lance Kinsey (born 1954)Canadian actor and screenwriter
Tarence Kinsey (born 1984)American basketball player
Erika Kinsey (born 1988)Swedish high jumper
Howard Kinsey (1899–1966)US tennis player

People named Kinsey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kinsey

Also a first name

Kinsey has been given to 8,113 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2011. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.