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Kinga

#14,106 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Kunigunde

Kinga has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #14,106 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Kinga, 2025

1 in 553,000

Kinga over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kinga: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Kunigunde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kinga means

Kinga is a diminutive of Kunigunde.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kinga is used in Polish and Hungarian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkiŋ.ɡa/ and /ˈkiŋ.ɡɒ/ for Kinga.

Origin, language, and formation

Kinga is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kunigunde.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Kinga is pronounced /ˈkiŋ.ɡa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 213 girls were recorded with the name Kinga between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,937 in 2008.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,415 in 2015 to #14,106 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kinga?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,106
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kinga 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kinga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kingas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kinga was born before 2005 — so the typical Kinga is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
213
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Choose a decade

2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Kinga 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,691
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.5%
Peak was 2008 (16)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,937
2008

Spellings of Kinga

Kinga is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 59.8% against Kinga's <0.01%.

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 Kinga is used

Across 1910–2025, Kinga was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 361,364 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Kinga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kinga around the world

Where Kinga 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
    2003–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2009–2022
    #531
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2011
    #363
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2006–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    2000–2018
    #7,350
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #559
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1961–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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

Kinga by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,106
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,937
2008
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
213
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Kinga

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

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Sibling names for Kinga

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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