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Kinlee

Feminine

1998high 2014
#2485 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare71 girls in 2025

Kinlee joins a Kin- front to a -lee ending, and the -lee is genuine Old English for a clearing.

How old is the name Kinlee?

Kinlee first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Kinlee is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,700 people named Kinlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Kinlee most popular?

Kinlee peaked in 2014, reaching #1089 nationally. Today it ranks #2485, 1,396 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Kinlee

Our story of Kinlee is a story of a genuine ending and a clipped front. Kinsley rose fast as an American girls' name in the 2010s, from an English village whose name means the king's meadow, and families then clipped and rebuilt: Kinlee, Kinley, Kinslee. The -lee element is genuinely Old English and means a clearing. The compound appears in the registers in the 2010s and is that new.

Meaningscholars disagree

Not established

The -lee ending is the Old English leah, 'wood' or 'clearing', which is settled. The Kin- front may reflect Kinsley or simply be a fashionable sound. The compound is modern American and not documented as inherited.

How the name formed

  1. leah
  2. Kinlee

Related forms: Kinley · Kinsley

Pronouncing Kinlee

KIN-lee

Two syllables, stress on the first. Kinlee and Kinley are said identically.

Nicknames for Kinlee

Moderate

KinThe front sound alone, which collides with an ordinary English noun
LeeThe back of the name, and a name in its own right for both sexes
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1998–202523511802357119982025

US babies named Kinlee per year from 1998 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#10891990s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1998
Most girls named
2014235 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1089reached in 2014
Change vs 2024
+18.3%71 in 2025, from 60
Kinlee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2014, with 235 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Kinlee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Kinley in English — spelling variant
  • Kinsley in English — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Tennessee.

Kinlees among us

2,700

people named Kinlee are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 22,638 born in 2025 was named Kinlee

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Kinlee

#2485
Kinlee on the 2025 chart
#735
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kinlee went to 71 girls in 2025, but Kynlee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 227, which makes it the 735th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,750 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 7,080 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,638 for Kinlee itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Cristie test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kinlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cristie climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cristie's path sketches the road Kinlee is walking now.

40%chance Kinlee will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Kinlee, aligned on its peakCristie· peak 1974not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+30 yrsCristie · #12620Kinlee today
Kinlee today is about where Cristie stood in 1985 — 11 years past a #1089-sized peak. By 2000, Cristie had settled around #12620.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Kinlee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Kinlee is headed

19982030

US babies named Kinlee per year, 1998 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Kinlee is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-24% by 2030projected around #3,133 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Kinlee beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Kinlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Kinleethis name71#2485Laiken71#2485Levi71#2485Sariya71#2485Caitlyn71#2485

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The -lee element is genuinely Old English and means a clearing.
  • Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • The compound is modern and only the ending has an origin.
  • Kinley and Kinsley are both close in sound.
  • It will need spelling out every time.

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Frequently asked

How many Kinlees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Kinlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Kinlee?
Kinlee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kynlee is the more common one — 156 births in 2025 against 71 for Kinlee.
How popular is the name Kinlee in 2025?
Kinlee ranks #2485 among US girl names in 2025, with 71 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Kinlee?
About 1 in every 22,638 US girls born in 2025 was named Kinlee — 71 in all.
Will my child share the name Kinlee with classmates?
Kinlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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Laiken#2485 · Levi#2485 · Sariya#2485 · Caitlyn#2485 · Serayah#2485 · Briseida#2485 · Marguerite#2485 · Ilana#2485

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