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Kynzlee

Feminine · “king's clearing”

2006high 2019
#4460 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare31 girls in 2025

Kynzlee is a respelling of Kinsley, an English place name meaning the king's clearing — or a clearing belonging to a man called Cyne.

How old is the name Kynzlee?

Kynzlee first appears in US birth records in 2006 — 19 years ago. The typical Kynzlee is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Kynzlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Kynzlee most popular?

Kynzlee peaked in 2019, reaching #1844 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 2,616 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Kynzlee

Cyne is the Old English element for royalty and appears in a great many Anglo-Saxon names — Cyneburga, Cynewulf, Cyneheard — and it is the same word as king with the vowel unaltered. Kinsley in Yorkshire is a clearing associated with it. The surname moved into American girls' naming after 2000 and Kynzlee, Kinslee and Kinsleigh followed within a decade.

Meaningscholars disagree

king's clearing

From Old English cyning, a king, or the personal name Cyne, with leah, a clearing; the Yorkshire village of Kinsley carries it. Which element is present is not settled for every place of the name.

How the name formed

  1. cyne leah
  2. Kinsley
  3. Kynzlee

Related forms: Kinsley · Kinslee

Pronouncing Kynzlee

KINZ-lee

Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the name sounds the same.

Nicknames for Kynzlee

Moderate

KynzThe front clip
LeeTakes the ending
KinzieA softened form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2006–20251105501103120062025

US babies named Kynzlee per year from 2006 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#18442000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2006
Most girls named
2019110 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1844reached in 2019
Change vs 2024
−18.4%31 in 2025, from 38
Kynzlee sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2019, with 110 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.

Kynzlee in other languages

The same name elsewhere

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

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana.

Kynzlees among us

1,200

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

About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Kynzlee

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

Spellings of Kynzlee

#4460
Kynzlee on the 2025 chart
#857
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kynzlee went to 31 girls in 2025, but Kinzlee 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 — 3,603 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 15,605 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Kynzlee 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 Sharmaine test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kynzlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharmaine climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharmaine's path sketches the road Kynzlee is walking now.

40%chance Kynzlee will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Kynzlee, aligned on its peakSharmaine· peak 1992not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+20 yrsSharmaine · #13050Kynzlee today
Kynzlee today is about where Sharmaine stood in 1998 — 6 years past a #1844-sized peak. By 2013, Sharmaine had settled around #13050.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Kynzlee 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 Kynzlee is headed

20062030

US babies named Kynzlee per year, 2006 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Kynzlee is easing off slowly — about 35% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-35% by 2030projected around #5,121 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.

Kynzlee beside its neighbors

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

Kynzleethis name31#4460Jayce31#4460Nikita31#4460Magali31#4460Emari31#4460

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • A documented place-name meaning with a real English village behind it.
  • Lee is a plain short form that works at any age.
  • Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
What to consider
  • Kinsley is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
  • Kynzlee, Kinslee, Kinsleigh and Kinsley are all in use.
  • The y and z both invite correction.

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Frequently asked

How many Kynzlees are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Kynzlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Kynzlee?
Kynzlee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kinzlee is the more common one — 72 births in 2025 against 31 for Kynzlee.
How popular is the name Kynzlee in 2025?
Kynzlee ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Kynzlee?
About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Kynzlee — 31 in all.
Will my child share the name Kynzlee with classmates?
Kynzlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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Jayce#4460 · Nikita#4460 · Magali#4460 · Emari#4460 · Rilyn#4460 · Danyla#4460 · Lynleigh#4460 · Mandy#4460

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