Kinnley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Kinnley is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Fionnlagh”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Kinnley mean?
Scottish: spelling of Kinley; short form of the surname McKinley
“son of Fionnlagh”
From McKinley, Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaigh, 'son of Fionnlagh', the name anglicised as Finlay.
Meaning borrowed from Kinley. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kinnley a girl's or a boy's name?
Kinnley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kinnley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Kinnley, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had more girls named Kinnley than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Kinnley in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 765 girls in the US were given Kinnley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #428, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Kinnley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,143 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,214 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,806 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
Names like Kinnley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kenley Teagan Finley Brynlee Braelynn Keiry Keegan Keeley Brynn Briar Rynlee Kennedy
Other spellings of Kinnley
Kinley Kynlee Kinlee Kinleigh Kynleigh Kynli Kynlei Kynlie Kynley
Names related to Kinnley
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, “Kinnley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kinnley, updated 20 October 2026.