Fun Facts About the Name Kinslei
- 155 babies named Kinslei: U.S. records list 155 babies given the name Kinslei from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kinslei Mean?
Kinslei is a modern respelling of the given name Kinsley, which in turn comes from an English surname. That surname was taken from place names in England, especially the village of Kinsley in West Yorkshire. The place name is built from Old English elements. The second part is lēah, meaning "wood," "woodland," or "clearing." The first part is less certain. It is often explained as cyning, "king," which yields the sense "the king's woodland clearing." Some place-name scholars instead read it as an Old English personal name such as Cyna, giving "Cyna's clearing." The literal element lēah is the secure part of the meaning; the first element is a reasonable but disputed reconstruction rather than a settled fact.
Kinslei Name History & Origins
Kinsley began as a place name in Yorkshire, England, and from there became a hereditary English surname. Like many English surnames, it was later adopted as a first name. Kinsley came into use as a girl's given name in the United States in the late twentieth century, part of a wider fashion for surname-style names that end in the sound "lee."
Kinslei is one respelling within that group, alongside forms such as Kinslee and Kinsleigh. The -ei ending is a phonetic respelling rather than evidence of a separate root, so the name's background is the history of Kinsley as a surname turned given name, not an independent origin of its own.
How Popular is the Name Kinslei?
Kinslei has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2020. Its best rank was #6,503 in 2020.
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 | #9,185 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #12,782 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #7,466 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #8,287 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2021 | #8,732 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2020 | #6,503 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #8,383 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #13,183 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #10,367 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #10,500 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #8,704 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2014 | #11,487 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2013 | #18,026 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #15,981 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #15,869 | 6 | 0.0003% |
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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