girls:
2.1k births since 1991
#3712 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1991
#5643 (27th percentile)
The name Kenleigh is the #5,643 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,144 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 27.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,712 (35.0% percentile) for all time with 2,144 births since 1991.
Kenleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (first recorded for girls in 1991). Birth data for Kenleigh is available in 28 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kenleigh reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 20.4% percentile (ranked #770) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 104 births per million (ranked 20.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kenleigh ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 38.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kenleigh".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kenleigh is pronounced as KEHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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