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Kenslie

Gender
Girl
Say it
KENZ-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Kenslie is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Kenslie mean?

English: spelling of Kenslee; respelling of Kensley or Kinsley, English surnames from place names

Kinsley began as an English surname from a place name ending in Old English leah 'woodland clearing'.

Meaning borrowed from Kenslee.

Is Kenslie a girl's or a boy's name?

Kenslie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kenslie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,553among girls
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 42% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Kenslie, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 49 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kenslie than any year since 2010.

Half of all the girls named Kenslie in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 741 girls in the US were given Kenslie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #439, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 49 in 20172025
Kenslie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202423#5,440
202324#5,245
202235#4,106
202130#4,503
202033#4,167
201944#3,498
201841#3,676
201749#3,247
201637#3,996
201537#3,988
201447#3,367
201335#4,154
201234#4,294
201129#4,806
201017#7,214
200912#9,375
200813#8,961
20078#12,671
200610#10,606
20057#13,003
20047#12,754
20030–
20027#12,181
20010–
20007#11,794

Nicknames for Kenslie

Names like Kenslie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kenslie

Names related to Kenslie

More English names

Every English name

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, “Kenslie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kenslie, updated 20 October 2026.