Kensleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KENZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,171 for girls
Kensleigh is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).
What does Kensleigh mean?
English: respelling of Kinsley or Kensley, English surnames from place names
Kinsley began as an English surname from a place name ending in Old English leah 'woodland clearing'.
Is Kensleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Kensleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kensleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,171among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34about 1 in 47,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Kensleigh, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,931st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 80 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Kensleigh than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Kensleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 741 girls in the US were given Kensleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #439, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.
Kensleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,171 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,176 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,789 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,821 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,510 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,931 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,651 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,275 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,320 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,829 |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,736 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,533 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,511 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,168 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Nicknames for Kensleigh
- Kenz 11 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Kensleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee Kenley Teagan Briar Braelynn Sevyn Kinley Rynlee Ocean Londyn Reign Lennon
Other spellings of Kensleigh
Kensley Kenzley Kenzlee Kenslee Kenzleigh Kenslie Kenzli Kenslei Kensly Kenzlie Kenzly
Names related to Kensleigh
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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, “Kensleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kensleigh, updated 20 October 2026.