Kensington
Kensington is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 76 births. Its best rank was 974th, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 760.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2015278 births
- Best rank
- #974in 2015
- Since 1997
- 3,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,889 girls have been named Kensington in the United States since 1997, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 278 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 69%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 161 boys have also been given it, 5.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Kensington was the 974th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Kensington
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aubreighpeak 2015
- Emmalynpeak 2015
- Kynleepeak 2017
- Tinleypeak 2016
- Zyanapeak 2014
- Paizleepeak 2015
- Emmalynnpeak 2015
- Kynleighpeak 2014
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.