Kynley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Kynley is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Kynley come from?
Scottish: spelling of Kinley, from McKinley
Is Kynley a girl's or a boy's name?
Kynley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kynley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 64% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Kynley, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had fewer girls named Kynley than any year since 2004.
Half of all the girls named Kynley 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 Kynley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #428, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Kynley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,772 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,219 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,849 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,429 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,717 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,133 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,842 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Kynley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kenley Finley Teagan Brynlee Braelynn Keiry Kennedy Brynn Kensley Keeley Briar Keegan
Other spellings of Kynley
Kinley Kynlee Kinlee Kinleigh Kynleigh Kinnley Kynli Kynlei Kynlie
Names related to Kynley
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, “Kynley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kynley, updated 20 October 2026.