Fun Facts About the Name Kinzleigh
- 420 babies named Kinzleigh: U.S. records list 420 babies given the name Kinzleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kinzleigh Mean?
Kinzleigh is a modern respelling of Kinsley, which is generally traced to the English surname and place name Kingsley. That name goes back to Old English cyninges lēah, commonly translated as "the king's wood" or "the king's clearing." The first element is cyning, "king," in its genitive form cyninges, "king's"; the second is lēah, which can mean "wood," "clearing," or "meadow." The -leigh ending in Kinzleigh is one of several ornamental spellings of the same -ley element, and the literal sense of the name is unchanged by that respelling.
Kinzleigh Name History & Origins
Kingsley is an English surname recorded from the medieval period, taken from places of that name, including a village in Cheshire and others in Hampshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Staffordshire. The surname is well attested in later centuries - the Victorian novelist and clergyman Charles Kingsley is one documented bearer - and Kingsley was also used occasionally as a boy's first name in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Kinsley is found as an English surname and place name in its own right, and by the later 20th century it was being given as a first name, mainly for girls. From that point, spellings multiplied: -ley, -lee, -leigh, and -ly are used interchangeably in modern English given names, and a z is often swapped in for the s sound. Kinzleigh belongs to this group of respellings rather than to an older recorded form. Its components are those of the parent name; only the spelling has been reshaped.
How Popular is the Name Kinzleigh?
Kinzleigh 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 2014. Its best rank was #3,963 in 2014.
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 | #5,829 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2024 | #5,356 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2023 | #6,798 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #4,726 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2021 | #5,482 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2020 | #5,755 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2019 | #4,603 | 30 | 0.0018% |
| 2018 | #4,511 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2017 | #4,036 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2016 | #5,068 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2015 | #4,109 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2014 | #3,963 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2013 | #5,578 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2012 | #5,334 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2011 | #6,449 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2010 | #10,151 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #18,835 | 5 | 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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