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Kensley

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Kensley is ranked 741st among girls in 2024 (378 births). Its best rank was 424th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024
#741up 13 from 2023
Births in 2024
3780.02% of girls
Peak year
2018738 births
Best rank
#424in 2018
Since 1987
8,901people given the name
Babies named Kensley, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

8,581 girls have been named Kensley in the United States since 1987, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 738 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 606 → 741).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 58%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 320 boys have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Kensley
1980s22
1990s215
2000s938
2010s4,945
2020s2,461

In 2018, its biggest year

Kensley was the 424th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Kensley

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.