Kinsleigh
Feminine · “king's meadow”
Kinsleigh dresses Kinsley in a -leigh ending, and the English place name behind it means the king's meadow — cyning and leah, two of the plainest Old English words there are.
How old is the name Kinsleigh?
Kinsleigh first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Kinsleigh is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,300 people named Kinsleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kinsleigh most popular?
Kinsleigh peaked in 2021, reaching #1162 nationally. Today it ranks #1587, 425 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From cyning leah to Kinsleigh
The story of Kinsleigh
Kinsley was an English place name and surname that entered American given-name use for girls in the 2000s, part of the wide movement of surname-names for daughters. It rose very fast, and the respellings followed as they always do. Kinsleigh appears in the American registers from around 2012 and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
king's meadow
From the Old English cyning, 'king', and leah, 'wood' or 'clearing'. A second reading takes the first element as a personal name, Cyne. Kinsley in Yorkshire is documented in Domesday. The -leigh spelling of leah is a nineteenth-century convention rather than a medieval one.
How the name formed
- cyning leah
- Kinsley
- Kinsleigh
Related forms: Kinsley · Kinslee · Kingsley
Pronouncing Kinsleigh
KINZ-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Kinsleigh
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 2021210 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1162reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −9.0%132 in 2025, from 145
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.
Kinsleigh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kinsley in English — spelling variant
- Kinslee in English — spelling variant
- Kingsley in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Alabama.
Kinsleighs among us
people named Kinsleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,176 born in 2025 was named Kinsleigh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kinsleigh
- #1587
- Kinsleigh on the 2025 chart
- #810
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kinsleigh went to 132 girls in 2025, but Kynsleigh is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 150, which makes it the 810th most-given girls’ name of the year — 777 places above the chart.
- Kinsleigh132
- Kynsleigh18
About 1 girl in 10,715 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,176 for Kinsleigh 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Briseida test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kinsleigh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Briseida climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Briseida's path sketches the road Kinsleigh is walking now.
Kinsleigh 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 Kinsleigh is headed
Kinsleigh should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Kinsleigh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kinsleigh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The king's-meadow meaning is concrete and belongs to a real family of English place names.
- Leigh is available as a short form with its own record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Kinsley is the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- The -leigh ending will need dictating every time.
- Kingsley is a genuine older name and is easily confused with it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kinsleighs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Kinsleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kinsleigh?
- Kinsleigh is the most-used spelling in US records — 132 of the 150 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kynsleigh.
- How popular is the name Kinsleigh in 2025?
- Kinsleigh ranks #1587 among US girl names in 2025, with 132 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kinsleigh?
- About 1 in every 12,176 US girls born in 2025 was named Kinsleigh — 132 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kinsleigh with classmates?
- Kinsleigh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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