Kinleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #3,341 for girls
Kinleigh is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,341st for girls in the US (46 babies).
Where does Kinleigh come from?
Scottish: variant of Kinley, from the surname McKinley
Is Kinleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Kinleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 46 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kinleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,341among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 46about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 46 girls in the US were named Kinleigh, making it the 3,341st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,523rd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 233 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Kinleigh than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Kinleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 765 girls in the US were given Kinleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #428, up from #3,341 for this spelling alone.
Kinleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,341 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,823 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,123 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,366 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,523 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,898 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,650 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,321 |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,300 |
| 2015 | 183 | #1,306 |
| 2014 | 233 | #1,092 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,470 |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,445 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,728 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,942 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,891 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,935 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,298 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,575 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,211 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Nicknames for Kinleigh
- Kin
Names like Kinleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Brynlee Braelynn Kenley Keegan Brynn Finley Kayden Keiry Briar Brylee Devyn
Other spellings of Kinleigh
Kinley Kynlee Kinlee Kynleigh Kinnley Kynli Kynlei Kynlie Kynley
Names related to Kinleigh
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, “Kinleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kinleigh, updated 20 October 2026.