How popular is “Kensley” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kensley” 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 “Kensley” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Kensley” 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
1987	8	0.000002219	8		100%
1988	6	0.000001624	6		100%
1989	14	0.000003642	8	6	14%
1990	13	0.000003289	8	5	23%
1991	14	0.000003594	14		100%
1992	11	0.000002864	11		100%
1993	13	0.000003448	13		100%
1994	23	0.000006187	16	7	39%
1995	23	0.00000628	18	5	57%
1996	34	0.000009322	28	6	65%
1997	44	0.000012135	36	8	64%
1998	46	0.000012506	38	8	65%
1999	33	0.000008934	33		100%
2000	41	0.000010847	41		100%
2001	51	0.000013624	51		100%
2002	75	0.000020063	69	6	84%
2003	72	0.000018936	67	5	86%
2004	83	0.000021723	75	8	81%
2005	72	0.000018726	66	6	83%
2006	91	0.000023002	81	10	78%
2007	137	0.00003427	131	6	91%
2008	190	0.000048338	173	17	82%
2009	198	0.00005183	184	14	86%
2010	256	0.000069269	240	16	88%
2011	331	0.000090492	319	12	93%
2012	393	0.000107454	380	13	93%
2013	459	0.000125903	443	16	93%
2014	494	0.000133284	480	14	94%
2015	454	0.000122672	446	8	96%
2016	607	0.000165454	595	12	96%
2017	662	0.000185113	648	14	96%
2018	749	0.000213032	738	11	97%
2019	669	0.000192744	656	13	96%
2020	695	0.000208048	680	15	96%
2021	554	0.000163521	544	10	96%
2022	501	0.000148087	485	16	94%
2023	388	0.000117178	374	14	93%
2024	397	0.000119273	378	19	90%

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