Kensi

#10,505 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kensi has been given to 761 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #10,505 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Kensi, 2025

1 in 368,000

Kensi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kensi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,505
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kensi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kensi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kensis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kensi was born before 2014 — so the typical Kensi is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
761
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.0% of all recorded uses (533).

Is Kensi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,875
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,142
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,679
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 2014 (90)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,133
2014

Spellings of Kensi

Kensi is not the most common spelling — Kelli is, with 22.6% against Kensi's 0.23%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kensi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kensi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 522,157 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kensi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kensi around the world

Where Kensi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2011–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • France
    2015–2015
    #5,578
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2011–2022
    #2,318
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kensi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,505
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,142
Best rank ever
#2,133
2014
Peak year
2014
90 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
761
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kensi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Kensi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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