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Kensington

#2,839 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kensington has been given to 3,112 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #2,839 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 278 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Kensington, 2025

1 in 55,300

Kensington over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kensington over time

In 2025, Kensington went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19972025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kensington: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kensington means

Kensington is a given name.

The naming story behind Kensington

Wikidata records Kensington as a given name. The entity identifier is Q120799021, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,950 girls were recorded with the name Kensington between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 278 in 2015; its best national rank was #974 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,556 in 2020 to #2,839 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #974 in 2015 to #2,839 in 2025.

In the United States, 162 boys were recorded with the name Kensington between 2006 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,209 in 2018.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kensington?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,839
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kensington 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kensington. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kensingtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kensington was born before 2015 — so the typical Kensington is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,950
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 67.8% of all recorded uses (2,001).

Is Kensington 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
−464
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,283
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,865
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.6%
Peak was 2015 (278)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#974
2015

Spellings of Kensington

Kensington is the most-used spelling, taking 65.7% of the 4,488 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Kensington is used

Across 2016–2025, Kensington was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 12,403 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 5,263
  2. 2Arizona1 in 7,692
  3. 3Ohio1 in 7,692
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 8,333
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 10,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 11,111
  8. 8Indiana1 in 11,111

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.

Kensington around the world

Where Kensington 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kensington by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,839
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,283
Best rank ever
#974
2015
Peak year
2015
278 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,950
Count in 2025
60

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,209
2018
Peak year
2018
18 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
162
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kensington

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

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Names with a curve like Kensington

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kensington, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kensington

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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