Kinlee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #2,485 for girls
Kinlee is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of the fair warrior”. In 2025 it ranked 2,485th for girls in the US (71 babies).
What does Kinlee mean?
Scottish: spelling of Kinley, short for McKinley
“son of the fair warrior”
A spelling of Kinley, a short form of McKinley, the Gaelic surname 'son of Finlay'.
Is Kinlee a girl's or a boy's name?
Kinlee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 71 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kinlee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,485th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 71 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 71 girls in the US were named Kinlee, making it the 2,485th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,135th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 235 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Kinlee in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 765 girls in the US were given Kinlee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #428, up from #2,485 for this spelling alone.
Kinlee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,485 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,798 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,517 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,087 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,024 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,135 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,700 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,520 |
| 2017 | 156 | #1,449 |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,456 |
| 2015 | 207 | #1,204 |
| 2014 | 235 | #1,089 |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,184 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,257 |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,196 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,536 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,183 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,584 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,214 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,223 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,483 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,488 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,663 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,377 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,169 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
Names like Kinlee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Teagan, Brylee, Kenley, Braelynn, Braylee, Rynlee, Brynn, Finley, Keiry, Keegan, Briar
Other spellings of Kinlee
Kinley, Kynlee, Kinleigh, Kynleigh, Kinnley, Kynli, Kynlei, Kynlie, Kynley
Names related to Kinlee
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, “Kinlee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kinlee, updated 20 October 2026.