How rare is the name Kinsey?

7,241 people in the United States have the first name Kinsey, about 1 in 41,711. It ranks #3,057 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KINSEY

#3,057

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,241
About
1 in 41,711
This common or more
81.5%
Who bears it

Of the 7,241 people named Kinsey, 85.7% reported their origin as White, 5.2% as two or more races and 4% as Hispanic or Latino. 95.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kinsey peaked in 2011, when 319 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19172025
Peak year
2011
Births that year
319
In 2025*
53 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,113 babies have been given the name since 1917. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kinsey by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,689. The largest share of babies named Kinsey, 50.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#9,47512
1920s#11,72211
1930s#10,55210
1940s#12,5745
1950s#10,26624
1960s#14,95510
1970s#7,404120
1980s#2,613750
1990s#1,6892,021
2000s#1,7142,566
2010s#2,1852,023
2020s#3,711561
Greatest Generation 1901–270.3%
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–640.4%
Generation X 1965–802.1%
Millennials 1981–9625.3%
Generation Z 1997–1250.5%
2013 and later21.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kinsey is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kinsey has been most common in Oklahoma (2.5×), Texas (2.4×), and Georgia (2.4×), and least common in Minnesota (0.45×).

5,254 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kinsey

#3,055 Yuliana · 7,245#3,056 Chang · 7,243#3,058 Bodhi · 7,239#3,059 Rian · 7,238

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kinsey, most common first.

#23,816 Kinzey · 409#39,517 Kimsey · 191

Also a last name

As a last name, Kinsey ranks #2,329 of 156,621, with 15,228 people. See Kinsey as a last name

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