girls:
161 births since 2009
#5555 (3rd percentile)
boys:
97 births since 2011
#4489 (2nd percentile)
overall:
258 births since 2009
#7481 (3rd percentile)
The name Kentley is the #7,481 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 258 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,555 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 2009. For boys, it ranks #4,489 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 2011.
Kentley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for girls and 2011 for boys).
The name Kentley has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (62.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kentley were girls.
For girls, Kentley reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #956) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kentley ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 90.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kentley reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #877) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kentley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kentley is pronounced as KEHN-tlee, which has 2 syllables.
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