Entry № 5383 · English origin

Kensington Kensington — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"From the royal district"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "from the royal district".

Kensington is a name of English origin, a name from the London district, the town of Kensings people.

From the royal district — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Kensington
Transliteration
Kensington
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Kensington stands.

Kensington 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.

Kensingtons before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kensington.

The number behind Kensington.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kensington reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.