Entry № 5497 · English origin

Kinsley Kinsley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KINZ-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"King's meadow"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Surname: medieval

A name that means "king's meadow".

Kinsley comes from an Old English surname meaning "king's meadow" — from cyne (king) and lēah (clearing, meadow). Kinsley is a village in Yorkshire, England. The name was originally a surname.

It now sits in the U.S.

King's meadow. A modern name with old roots.

The name in its native script.

Kinsley
Transliteration
Kinsley
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪnz.li /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Kinsley stands.

Kinsley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kinsleys before her.

Real people
Kinsley Holiness
American social media personality.
born 2014
In fiction

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Names connected to Kinsley.

The number behind Kinsley.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kinsley reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.