Kinsey
Kinsey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 76 births. Its best rank was 835th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 760.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2011313 births
- Best rank
- #835in 1998
- Since 1968
- 8,059people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,764 girls have been named Kinsey in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 313 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 295 boys have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Kinsey was the 843rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2011 were Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Kinsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keilahpeak 2005
- Karleepeak 2008
- Carleepeak 2009
- Kallipeak 2007
- Deziraepeak 2006
- Adriannapeak 2007
- Krislynpeak 2003
- Andreyapeak 2008
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.