Kenly
Mostly girls · KEN-lee · Modern
Kenly is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Kenly mean?
Modern: spelling of Kenlee; blend of Ken and Lee
A modern blend of Ken with the -lee ending of names like Kinley.
- Say it
- KEN-lee
Meaning borrowed from Kenlee.
Is Kenly a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Kenly has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Kenly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Kenly, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995. 5 boys were also named Kenly in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
2025 had fewer girls named Kenly than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Kenly in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 262 girls in the US were given Kenly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #904, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
In 2017, 86% of the babies named Kenly in the US were girls.
Kenly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,475 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,660 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,643 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,385 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,243 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,707 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,432 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Names like Kenly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Keiry Teagan Brynlee Cassidy Braelynn Kayden Brynn Kennedy Keegan Kinley Brylee Keely
Other spellings of Kenly
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