Given name & surname
Kinsley
“from the king 's meadow”
Kinsley is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the king 's meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the king 's meadow.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man's name)”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Kinsley is a variant of Kingsley. The history of Kingsley gives this family its wider story. Kingsley’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Kinsley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 50,243
- 227 boys · 50,016 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 4,066 babies
- 2025
- 2,683
- #93 for girls · #7,020 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 2,671 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 93 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 11.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 4,053 in 2017. It also appeared in 12 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (222). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 27,209 as a first name in 2020; 2,643 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kinsley’s family of names
Kinsley has a related form in Kingsley. Kinsley has a related form in Kingsley. In English usage, Kinsley has a related form in Kinslee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kinsley
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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