Kynsley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KINZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #3,458 for girls
Kynsley is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,458th for girls in the US (44 babies).
What does Kynsley mean?
English: spelling of Kinsley, an English surname and place name
A modern spelling of Kinsley, an English surname that is also the name of a village in West Yorkshire.
Is Kynsley a girl's or a boy's name?
Kynsley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 44 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kynsley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,458among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 44about 1 in 37,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 44 girls in the US were named Kynsley, making it the 3,458th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,341st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 90 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Kynsley than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Kynsley in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,522 girls in the US were given Kynsley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #82, up from #3,458 for this spelling alone.
Kynsley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,458 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,930 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,274 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,170 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,069 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,341 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,428 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,113 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,283 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,385 |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,712 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,078 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,402 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,934 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,243 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
Names like Kynsley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kenley Kinley Oakley Finley Kensley Wrenley Sevyn Briar Kaisley Brynlee Blakely Ensley
Other spellings of Kynsley
Kinsley Kinslee Kinsleigh Kinzley Kynslee Kinzlee Kynzlee Kinzleigh Kynsleigh Kynzley Kinslie
Names related to Kynsley
More English names
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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, “Kynsley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kynsley, updated 20 October 2026.