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Kingsley vs Kinta

American parents have registered 8,874 Kingsleys since 1880, against 87 Kintas. Kingsley is still ahead, with 315 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kingsley against Kinta, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kingsley Kinta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Kingsley for 112 years and Kinta for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kingsley Kinta
Total US births 8,87487
Most in one year 66746
Babies in 2025 315under 5
Estimated living today 8,40080
Median age today 848
Peak year 20161977
Best rank 584th boys1,670th boys
Rank in 2025 1,095thunranked
First recorded 19071977
Girls / boys 2,165 / 6,70914 / 73

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kintas alive today are over 48; half the Kingsleys are over 8. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kingsley and Kinta.