Fun Facts About the Name Kinslee
- More than 5 thousand babies named Kinslee: U.S. records list 5,338 babies given the name Kinslee from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kinslee Mean?
Kinslee is a modern spelling of Kinsley, a name taken from an English surname and place name. It is formed from the Old English elements cyning, "king" - used here in its genitive form cyninges, "king's" - and lēah, which can mean "wood," "woodland clearing," or "meadow." The literal sense is therefore "the king's wood" or "the king's meadow," referring to a piece of land held by or associated with a king.
Because Kinslee is a respelling rather than a separate derivation, its meaning is the same as Kinsley's. The -lee ending is a phonetic English spelling of the same final syllable rather than a distinct Old English word. The surname Kingsley shares the same Old English elements and is sometimes treated as a close relative of Kinsley.
Kinslee Name History & Origins
The source of the name is an English surname, which in turn comes from one or more places in England named Kinsley or Kingsley, recorded in the medieval period and formed from Old English cyninges lēah. The family name was established in England well before it began to be used as a personal name.
Kinsley entered given-name use as a transferred surname, following the long English practice of adopting family names as first names. It was used for boys in the nineteenth century alongside the similar surname-name Kingsley, and in the late twentieth century it became far more common as a girl's name in the United States.
The spelling Kinslee belongs to a recent pattern in English-speaking countries of rewriting surname-derived names with endings such as -lee, -leigh, and -ly. These spellings change only how the name is written; they do not reflect a different origin or a different earlier form of the name.
How Popular is the Name Kinslee?
Kinslee recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2017. Its best rank was #652 in 2017.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #956 | 269 | 0.0167% |
| 2024 | #1,018 | 249 | 0.0154% |
| 2023 | #786 | 358 | 0.0223% |
| 2022 | #809 | 347 | 0.0212% |
| 2021 | #735 | 388 | 0.0237% |
| 2020 | #723 | 384 | 0.0238% |
| 2019 | #715 | 399 | 0.0238% |
| 2018 | #694 | 419 | 0.0246% |
| 2017 | #652 | 455 | 0.0264% |
| 2016 | #739 | 385 | 0.0217% |
| 2015 | #750 | 377 | 0.0211% |
| 2014 | #921 | 292 | 0.0163% |
| 2013 | #1,132 | 214 | 0.0122% |
| 2012 | #1,393 | 166 | 0.0094% |
| 2011 | #1,460 | 154 | 0.0088% |
| 2010 | #1,717 | 122 | 0.0069% |
| 2009 | #2,496 | 76 | 0.0041% |
| 2008 | #3,040 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2007 | #3,448 | 48 | 0.0025% |
| 2006 | #3,762 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2005 | #4,158 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2004 | #5,863 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2003 | #5,932 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2002 | #6,019 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2001 | #6,814 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2000 | #12,511 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1999 | #12,057 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #11,794 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #11,473 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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