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Kynslee

Feminine · “king's meadow”

2003high 2018
#2173 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare85 girls in 2025

Kynslee respells Kinsley — the king's meadow, or Cynesige's clearing — an Old English place name reshaped into a modern American girls' name.

How old is the name Kynslee?

Kynslee first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Kynslee is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,100 people named Kynslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Kynslee most popular?

Kynslee peaked in 2018, reaching #1192 nationally. Today it ranks #2173, 981 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Kynslee

Kinsley in Yorkshire preserves an Anglo-Saxon personal name built on 'royal' and 'victory', and the surname comes from the village. The name entered American girls' naming in the 2000s and rose fast; Kynslee is one of several respellings and 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. The Kyn- respelling is modern.

How the name formed

  1. Cynesige leah
  2. Kinsley
  3. Kynslee

Related forms: Kinsley · Kinslee · Kynsley

Pronouncing Kynslee

KINZ-lee

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

Nicknames for Kynslee

Moderate

KynThe front sound alone, 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 · 2003–202520010002008520032025

US babies named Kynslee per year from 2003 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#11922000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2003
Most girls named
2018200 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1192reached in 2018
Change vs 2024
+7.6%85 in 2025, from 79
Kynslee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2018, with 200 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.

Kynslee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Kinsley in English — spelling variant
  • Kinslee in English — spelling variant
  • Kynsley in English — spelling variant

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

Kynslees among us

2,100

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

About 1 girl in 18,909 born in 2025 was named Kynslee

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

Spellings of Kynslee

#2173
Kynslee on the 2025 chart
#628
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kynslee went to 85 girls in 2025, but Kinslee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 354, which makes it the 628th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,545 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 4,540 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,909 for Kynslee 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 Kady test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kynslee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kady climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kady's path sketches the road Kynslee is walking now.

40%chance Kynslee will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Kynslee, aligned on its peakKady· peak 1987not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-10 yrs+40 yrsKady · #6216Kynslee today
Kynslee today is about where Kady stood in 1994 — 7 years past a #1192-sized peak. By 2009, Kady had settled around #2354.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Kynslee 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 Kynslee is headed

20032030

US babies named Kynslee per year, 2003 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Kynslee is easing off slowly — about 26% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-26% by 2030projected around #2,836 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.

Kynslee beside its neighbors

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

Kynsleethis name85#2173Jocelynn85#2173Karlie85#2173Rosaline85#2173Zadie85#2173

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 Kynslees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Kynslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Kynslee?
Kynslee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kinslee is the more common one — 269 births in 2025 against 85 for Kynslee.
How popular is the name Kynslee in 2025?
Kynslee ranks #2173 among US girl names in 2025, with 85 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Kynslee?
About 1 in every 18,909 US girls born in 2025 was named Kynslee — 85 in all.
Will my child share the name Kynslee with classmates?
Kynslee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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Jocelynn#2173 · Karlie#2173 · Rosaline#2173 · Zadie#2173 · Dawn#2173 · Hiba#2173 · Kayce#2173 · Esty#2173

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