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
Grammatical form

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

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.