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Kinzlee

Feminine · “king's meadow”

2005high 2016
#2458 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare72 girls in 2025

Kinzlee respells Kinsley — the king's meadow, or Cynesige's clearing — an Old English place name.

How old is the name Kinzlee?

Kinzlee first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Kinzlee is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Kinzlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Kinzlee most popular?

Kinzlee peaked in 2016, reaching #1614 nationally. Today it ranks #2458, 844 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Kinzlee

Kinsley in Yorkshire preserves an Anglo-Saxon personal name built on 'royal' and 'victory', and the surname comes from the village. Kinsley rose fast as an American girls' name in the 2010s, and Kinzlee is one of several respellings. It appears in the registers in current use.

Meaningscholars disagree

king's meadow

Through Kinsley, from the Old English personal name Cynesige — cyne, 'royal', and sige, 'victory' — plus leah, 'clearing'. A simpler reading takes the first element as cyning, 'king'. The leah element is settled; the first is not.

How the name formed

  1. Cynesige leah
  2. Kinsley
  3. Kinzlee

Related forms: Kinsley · Kinslee · Kenzley

Pronouncing Kinzlee

KINZ-lee

Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.

Nicknames for Kinzlee

Moderate

KinzThe front clipping, used inside families rather than generally
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 · 2005–20251366801367220052025

US babies named Kinzlee per year from 2005 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#16142000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2005
Most girls named
2016136 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1614reached in 2016
Change vs 2024
+4.3%72 in 2025, from 69
Kinzlee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2016, with 136 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.

Kinzlee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Kinsley in English — spelling variant
  • Kinslee in English — spelling variant
  • Kenzley in English — related form

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

Kinzlees among us

1,500

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

About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was named Kinzlee

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

Spellings of Kinzlee

#2458
Kinzlee on the 2025 chart
#857
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kinzlee went to 72 girls in 2025, but Kynzlee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 103, which makes it the 857th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,601 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 15,605 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,323 for Kinzlee 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 Angelika test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kinzlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Angelika climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Angelika's path sketches the road Kinzlee is walking now.

40%chance Kinzlee will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Kinzlee, aligned on its peakAngelika· peak 1996not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+30 yrsAngelika · #6554Kinzlee today
Kinzlee today is about where Angelika stood in 2005 — 9 years past a #1615-sized peak. By 2020, Angelika had settled around #6554.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Kinzlee 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 Kinzlee is headed

20052030

US babies named Kinzlee per year, 2005 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Kinzlee is easing off slowly — about 18% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-18% by 2030projected around #2,963 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.

Kinzlee beside its neighbors

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

Kinzleethis name72#2458Edna72#2458Jailyn72#2458Jesse72#2458Roxy72#2458

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The king's-meadow reading is concrete and belongs to a real Yorkshire village.
  • Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • Kinsley is the standard spelling of the place and surname.
  • At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
  • The first element is genuinely disputed.

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Frequently asked

How many Kinzlees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Kinzlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Kinzlee?
Kinzlee is the most-used spelling in US records — 72 of the 103 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kynzlee.
How popular is the name Kinzlee in 2025?
Kinzlee ranks #2458 among US girl names in 2025, with 72 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Kinzlee?
About 1 in every 22,323 US girls born in 2025 was named Kinzlee — 72 in all.
Will my child share the name Kinzlee with classmates?
Kinzlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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