Kynlee

#1,401 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kinley

Kynlee has been given to 6,242 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,401 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 561 recorded.

Babies named Kynlee, 2025

1 in 21,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kynlee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kinley

surname transfer

What Kynlee means

Kynlee is a variant of Kinley.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Kynlee is a variant of Kinley. Kinley has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kinley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,242 girls were recorded with the name Kynlee between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 561 in 2017; its best national rank was #552 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #814 in 2020 to #1,401 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #657 in 2015 to #1,401 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 Kynlee?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 21,300; 156 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 10,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #1,401; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 14,731 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kynlee 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kynlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kynlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kynlee was born before 2016 — so the typical Kynlee is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 67.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 99.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6,242; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 67.2% of all recorded uses (4,193).

Is Kynlee 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: −81; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −587; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −744; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.36×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 27.8%; Peak was 2017 (561)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #552; 2017

Spellings of Kynlee

Kynlee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 25.9% against Kynlee's 1.2%.

Kaylee25.9%140,425
Kylie22.5%121,890
Rylee12.7%69,010
Kylee9.3%50,337
Brynlee4.1%22,229
Kinley3.7%19,959
Karlee2.5%13,647
Kailee2.4%12,925

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 Kynlee is used

Across 2016–2025, Kynlee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 1,235 girls, against 1 in 4,340 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

181 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Oklahoma1 in 1,235
2Arkansas1 in 1,316
3Kentucky1 in 1,493
4Louisiana1 in 1,538
5Mississippi1 in 1,538
6West Virginia1 in 1,613
7Alabama1 in 1,639
8Idaho1 in 1,852

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

Kynlee around the world

Where Kynlee 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
2012–2023
#3,391
in 2023

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

Kynlee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #1,401
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 587
Best rank ever: #552; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 561 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 6,242
Count in 2025: 156

Names similar to Kynlee

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

Kynslee Kynzlee Kyndal Kyndall Oaklee Zaylee Hadlee Raylee Harlee Adalee Jaylee Maylee Caylee Emalee Brylee Kailee Carlee Karlee Braylee Kinlee Skylee Shaylee Kinslee Everlee

Names with a curve like Kynlee

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

Emmalynn Braylee Emmalyn Scarlette Avah Avalyn Aubrielle Anniston Tinley Rilynn Elliot Addalyn

Sibling names for Kynlee

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

Ayesha Avah Jayde Harleigh Emani Mika Frida Zola

For a brother

Ishmael Titan Torin Smith Brecken Bilal Levon Merrick

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