Entry № 5491 · English origin

Kingsley Kingsley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KINGZ-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"King's meadow (Sir Ben Kingsley; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "king's meadow (sir ben kingsley; modern unisex)".

Kingsley is from the Old English cyninges-lēah (king's meadow).

King's meadow (Sir Ben Kingsley; modern unisex) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Kingsley
Transliteration
Kingsley
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪŋz.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kingsley stands.

Kingsley 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.

Kingsleys before her.

Real people
Sir Ben Kingsley
English Oscar actor.
born 1943
Mary Kingsley
English West Africa explorer.
1862 – 1900
Kingsley Amis
English Booker novelist.
1922 – 1995
In fiction
Kingsley
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Kingsley.

The number behind Kingsley.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kingsley reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.