Kynlei
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Kynlei is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Kynlei mean?
Scottish: variant of Kinley, from the Scottish surname McKinley
A respelling of Kinley, a shortening of the Scottish surname McKinley.
Is Kynlei a girl's or a boy's name?
Kynlei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kynlei in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Kynlei, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Kynlei in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 765 girls in the US were given Kynlei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #428, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Kynlei in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
Names like Kynlei
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Teagan, Rynlee, Braelynn, Finley, Kenley, Briar, Sevyn, Oaklynn, Lennon, Lakelynn, Kashlynn
Other spellings of Kynlei
Kinley, Kynlee, Kinlee, Kinleigh, Kynleigh, Kinnley, Kynli, Kynlie, Kynley
Names related to Kynlei
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, “Kynlei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kynlei, updated 20 October 2026.