Kinslee

#956 in 2025Girls' name

Royal, through Kinsley

Kinslee has been given to 5,342 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #956 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 455 recorded.

Babies named Kinslee, 2025

1 in 12,300

Kinslee over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kinslee: meaning, origin, and history

Royal, through Kinsley

surname transfer

What Kinslee means

Kinslee belongs to the name family reached through Kinslee → Kinsley → Cyne. Its meaning is “royal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kinslee is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kinslee is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kinsley and Cyne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,342 girls were recorded with the name Kinslee between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 455 in 2017; its best national rank was #652 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #723 in 2020 to #956 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #750 in 2015 to #956 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 Kinslee?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 12,300; 269 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 5,970; 0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025: #956; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 8,544 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kinslee 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,544 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kinslee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kinslees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kinslee was born before 2018 — so the typical Kinslee is around 7 today.

Median birth year: 2018; About 7 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 99.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5,342; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (2,983).

Is Kinslee 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: +62; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −233; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −206; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.71×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 59.1%; Peak was 2017 (455)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #652; 2017

Spellings of Kinslee

Kinslee is not the most common spelling — Kinsley is, with 33.1% against Kinslee's 3.5%.

Kinsley33.1%50,016
Ainsley13.6%20,470
Kinley13.2%19,959
Kensley5.9%8,948
Kinsey5.2%7,818
Kynlee4.1%6,242
Kinslee3.5%5,342
Tinsley3.1%4,659

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 Kinslee is used

Across 2016–2025, Kinslee was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,075 girls, against 1 in 3,927 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

193 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1West Virginia1 in 1,075
2Kentucky1 in 1,176
3Mississippi1 in 1,250
4Arkansas1 in 1,667
5Tennessee1 in 1,754
6Ohio1 in 2,041
7Oklahoma1 in 2,041
8Alabama1 in 2,174

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.

Geographically, Kinslee is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 73% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kinslee around the world

Where Kinslee 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
2010–2024
#2,256
in 2024

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

Kinslee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #956
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 233
Best rank ever: #652; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 455 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,342
Count in 2025: 269

Names similar to Kinslee

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

Kinzlee Kinlee Kingslee Kinzley Kindra Kinsey Novalee Braylee Shaylee Everlee Marilee Jubilee Preslee Annalee Kingsley Kinleigh Marylee Emmalee Wrenlee Brinlee Natalee Kinzie Coralee Paislee

Names with a curve like Kinslee

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

Zaylee Hadlee Karter Avalynn Itzayana Khaleesi Aubriella Adley Henley Coraline Aubrielle Hadleigh

Sibling names for Kinslee

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

For a sister

Emmeline Spencer Hadlee Zaylee Landry Liv Henley Aubrielle

For a brother

Damari Ephraim Mordechai Canaan Nixon Langston Joziah Ishaan

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