Girl name · English
Kinsley
“the king's meadow”
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Common nicknames
Short-forms and diminutives parents often use for Kinsley.
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About the name
Kinsley is an English place-name surname from cyning (king) plus leah (clearing) — a meadow held by the crown. There is a village of the name in West Yorkshire.
As a given name it is purely modern and purely American: unranked before 2004, top-100 within a decade, now number 93. It belongs to the same wave as Kinley, Kensley and Kenzie, which between them look like a single name with the middle replaced at random.
Kins is the short form. Two syllables want two or three (Kinsley Rae, Kinsley Josephine). On our vibe map it is Y2K Nostalgic with Modern Minimalist bones.
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All English names →Kinsley — common questions
Is Kinsley a boy or girl name?
Kinsley is traditionally a girl name of English origin.
What does the name Kinsley mean?
Kinsley means “the king's meadow” of English origin. Kinsley is an English place-name surname from cyning (king) plus leah (clearing) — a meadow held by the crown. There is a village of the name in West Yorkshire.
Where does the name Kinsley come from?
Kinsley is English in origin. As a given name it is purely modern and purely American: unranked before 2004, top-100 within a decade, now number 93. It belongs to the same wave as Kinley, Kensley and Kenzie, which between them look like a single name with the middle replaced at random.
What are common nicknames for Kinsley?
Kins and Lee — the short-forms parents most often use for Kinsley.
How popular is Kinsley?
Kinsley did not make the top 1,000 girls' names in US Social Security Administration data for 2025, which makes it genuinely rare in the US.
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