Kinsley

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kinsley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kinsley: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #856, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#856highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#4096
2017	#4063
2018	#1977
2019	#4686
2020	#2163
2021	#2942
2022	#2673
2023	#2346
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 8 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2346 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2021–2023
Highest recorded position: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2021–2023).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kinsley appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 9 ranked years and 78 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 1998.

Kinsley across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kinsley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#2544 (2009)	#5119 (2024)	8 of 27	32 (1998–2024)	7 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#4096 (2016)	#1977 (2018)	#2574 (2024)	9 of 9	78 (2016–2024)	14 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#856 (2023)	#856 (2023)	2 of 3	6 (2021–2023)	3 (2021)

Kinsley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #856 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Kinsley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #856, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
7 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#2,574position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
23 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
14births registered in its largest year, 2018Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kinza · #840, 29y
Kion · #1097, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aryanna · #856, 18y
Izzi · #856, 11y
Jianna · #856, 11y
Mireya · #856, 14y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adara · #856, 23y
Asra · #856, 25y
Dea · #856, 26y
Israa · #856, 26y

Kinsley was ranked #856 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kinsley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kinsley without appearing here.

Kinsley moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4686 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Kinsley

Daithi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2728 and #4702 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #3990.
Gunnar Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2544 and #3744 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #4632.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #856 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kinsley

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kinsley across 3 official records

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Kinsley at a glance

Kinsley across 3 official records

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kinsley

Kinsley and the names beside it

Kinsley moved ahead of

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