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How popular is “Kinley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kinley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kinley” 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.

Popularity of “Kinley” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kinley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kinley” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 9 5 29%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1991 13 0.000003337 8 5 23%
1992 25 0.000006508 17 8 36%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 17 0.000004573 11 6 29%
1995 26 0.0000071 19 7 46%
1996 19 0.000005209 19 100%
1997 59 0.000016272 53 6 80%
1998 96 0.0000261 87 9 81%
1999 130 0.000035193 122 8 88%
2000 135 0.000035715 128 7 90%
2001 172 0.000045948 162 10 88%
2002 172 0.00004601 163 9 90%
2003 203 0.000053388 203 100%
2004 241 0.000063074 233 8 93%
2005 246 0.000063982 241 5 96%
2006 300 0.000075831 292 8 95%
2007 333 0.000083298 325 8 95%
2008 470 0.000119573 462 8 97%
2009 697 0.000182452 688 9 97%
2010 1368 0.000370156 1352 16 98%
2011 1666 0.000455466 1641 25 97%
2012 1769 0.000483681 1750 19 98%
2013 1572 0.000431197 1560 12 98%
2014 1630 0.000439783 1617 13 98%
2015 1417 0.000382879 1408 9 99%
2016 1259 0.000343174 1248 11 98%
2017 1028 0.000287456 1019 9 98%
2018 993 0.000282431 984 9 98%
2019 781 0.000225012 770 11 97%
2020 714 0.000213736 707 7 98%
2021 624 0.000184182 617 7 98%
2022 597 0.000176464 592 5 98%
2023 505 0.000152513 499 6 98%
2024 483 0.00014511 483 100%

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  5. Kinleigh
  6. Kinley (this page)
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