Kingsley

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kingsley: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #270 in 2020, and it stood at #305 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#270highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2021	#5581

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #369 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #605 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #270 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2014–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #369 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kingsley appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,061 births with the name.

Kingsley 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.

Kingsley'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	#605 (1996)	#274 (2019)	#369 (2024)	29 of 29	2,061 (1996–2024)	176 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#393 (2002)	#393 (2002)	#660 (2023)	10 of 22	36 (2002–2023)	4 (2002)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#398 (2014)	#270 (2020)	#305 (2024)	4 of 11	18 (2014–2024)	6 (2020)

Kingsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kingsley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	126	4 of 10	32
2000s	287	10 of 10	29
2010s	931	10 of 10	93
2020sbusiest	717	5 of 10	143

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 143 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births fell by 54, from 164 to 110.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kingsley 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #270 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Kingsley'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	male	#369	117	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#371	110	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#275	164	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#291	162	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#283	164	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#274	176	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#340	135	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#343	139	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#375	123	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#536	72	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#550	66	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#637	53	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#671	50	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#546	64	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#615	53	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#748	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#731	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#711	37	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#747	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#760	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#889	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#842	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#621	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#585	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#476	40	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#605	27	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#270	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #270, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 176 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 28 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.

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.

King · #451, 28y
Kinga · #236, 51y
Kingston · #54, 23y
Kinley · #3332, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Rosalie · #270, 32y
Clark · #271, 29y
Tillie · #269, 30y
Yasmine · #271, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aedan · #271, 29y
Alister · #271, 28y
Amy-Leigh · #271, 24y
Benn · #271, 20y

Kingsley was ranked #270 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. 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.

Kingsley 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 Kingsley without appearing here.

Kingsley moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1253 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #889 and #1771.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #918 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #842 and #1595.
Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #889 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #760 and #1347.
Derek Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1253 and #1128 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #889 and #1326.

Moved ahead of Kingsley

Ezra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #842 and #883 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #753.
Theodore Compare
In 2011 they stood at #611 and #720 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #310.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #476 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #585 and #182.
Xavier Compare
In 2009 they stood at #423 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2010 that had become #611 and #262.

Moved the opposite way to Kingsley

Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #605 to #275 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #605 to #275 while Tor went from #2020 to #3449.
Brooke Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #605 to #283 while Brooke went from #2357 to #4608.
Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #585 to #275 while Ole went from #2901 to #4789.

Moved the same way as Kingsley

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #621 to #369 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #621 to #369 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #621 to #369 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kingsley went from #621 to #369 and Rune from #2943 to #1460.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #270 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kingsley

Kingsley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kingsley across 3 official records

Kingsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kingsley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Kingsley at a glance

Kingsley across 3 official records

Kingsley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kingsley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kingsley

Kingsley and the names beside it

Kingsley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kingsley

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