Kensy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEN-zee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Kensy is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of the handsome one”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Kensy mean?
Scottish: spelling of Kensie, itself a spelling of Kenzie, from the surname Mackenzie
“son of the handsome one”
A short form of Mackenzie, the Scottish surname from Gaelic MacCoinnich 'son of Coinneach'.
Meaning borrowed from Kensie.
Is Kensy a girl's or a boy's name?
Kensy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kensy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Kensy, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kensy than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Kensy in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 468 girls in the US were given Kensy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #625, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Kensy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Nicknames for Kensy
- Kens
Names like Kensy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kinley, Finley, Kennedy, Teagan, Brynlee, Keiry, Kenley, Braelynn, Cassidy, Blakely, Briar, Kinsley
Other spellings of Kensy
Names related to Kensy
More Scottish names
Isla, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas
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, “Kensy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kensy, updated 20 October 2026.