Kensley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Old English
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kənzɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kensley is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- HTHaiti
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Old English.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elizabeth Kensleyb. 1855GBBritish centenarian
- Brian Frederick Kensleyb. 1944ZASouth African zoologist (1944-2004)
- Keira Kensleyb. 1972GBBritish pornographic actress
- Eileen KensleyGBBeatles fan appearing in Get Back
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,502 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 738 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 680 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 656 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 367 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 341 | #3,502 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30 | #92,291 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2018 | 28 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2019 | 26 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2017 | 26 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kensley?
- A machine transcription gives /kənzɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kensley mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Old English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kensley a male or female name?
- Kensley is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Kensley?
- In the etymology graph, Kinslee is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kensley have the most bearers?
- Kensley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Kensley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kensleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kensley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.