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Girl · Old English
Kinsley
Say it: KINZ-lee
Meaning
From an English surname taken from place names, from an Old English personal name Cyne (cyne 'royal') and leah 'clearing'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A 21st-century American fashion, rising in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 33,689 babies given this name since 1978
- At its height in 2017, about 1 in 425 girls
- 3,758 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kinslee, Kinzley
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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