Kennley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEN-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Kennley is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Kennley mean?
English: spelling of Kenley; English place name and surname
From an English place name; RAF Kenley in Surrey was a key fighter base in the Battle of Britain.
Meaning borrowed from Kenley. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kennley a girl's or a boy's name?
Kennley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kennley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Kennley, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Kennley in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 262 girls in the US were given Kennley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #904, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Kennley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
Nicknames for Kennley
- Ken 6 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Kennley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Brynlee, Kinley, Keiry, Braelynn, Keegan, Briar, Keeley, Brynn, Kayden, Kashlynn, Finley
Other spellings of Kennley
Names related to Kennley
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kennley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kennley, updated 20 October 2026.