How popular is “Kensington” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kensington” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kensington” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kensington” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Kensington” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1997	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1998	17	0.000004622	17		100%
1999	21	0.000005685	21		100%
2000	25	0.000006614	25		100%
2001	25	0.000006678	25		100%
2002	24	0.00000642	24		100%
2003	32	0.000008416	32		100%
2004	26	0.000006805	26		100%
2005	42	0.000010924	42		100%
2006	52	0.000013144	47	5	81%
2007	53	0.000013258	53		100%
2008	59	0.00001501	53	6	80%
2009	79	0.00002068	72	7	82%
2010	122	0.000033011	114	8	87%
2011	124	0.0000339	116	8	87%
2012	159	0.000043474	152	7	91%
2013	235	0.00006446	224	11	91%
2014	236	0.000063674	230	6	95%
2015	292	0.000078899	278	14	90%
2016	277	0.000075504	264	13	91%
2017	249	0.000069627	241	8	94%
2018	229	0.000065133	211	18	84%
2019	184	0.000053012	171	13	86%
2020	144	0.000043106	136	8	89%
2021	107	0.000031583	99	8	85%
2022	77	0.00002276	71	6	84%
2023	69	0.000020838	62	7	80%
2024	84	0.000025237	76	8	81%

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