Meaning and history
From a surname derived from an English place name meaning “clearing belonging to Cyne,” with Cyne being a short form of Old English names beginning with cyne, meaning “royal,” Kinsley was very rare as an American girls’ name before 1990 but has risen steadily in popularity since then, possibly influenced by similar names such as Kinsey and Ainsley, both of which it has surpassed.
20062006: 301 births, rank #881
2007: 386 births, rank #757
2008: 547 births, rank #562
2009: 743 births, rank #428
2010: 1,046 births, rank #307
20112011: 1,461 births, rank #218
2012: 1,760 births, rank #179
2013: 1,981 births, rank #161
2014: 2,448 births, rank #131
2015: 2,788 births, rank #113
20162016: 3,378 births, rank #86
2017: 4,053 births, rank #59
2018: 3,881 births, rank #63
2019: 3,510 births, rank #74
2020: 3,780 births, rank #59
20212021: 3,885 births, rank #57
2022: 3,705 births, rank #61
2023: 3,204 births, rank #67
2024: 2,937 births, rank #85
20252025: 2,671 births, rank #93
Kinsley moved from #85 to #93 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2017, with 4,053 births.