Kinley Surname

87,562nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,493 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Isle of Man

Kinley Surname Definition:

(Celtic) a contraction of MacKinley, q.v. (English) = Kenley, q.v.

Kinley Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,8241:94,78510,635
Canada4741:77,7338,736
England3741:148,97914,256
Australia1971:137,03414,802
New Zealand1701:26,6374,667
Bhutan1151:5,357267
Isle of Man881:975148
Northern Ireland821:22,5002,605
Uruguay411:83,7018,547
Philippines201:5,061,911170,869
Scotland131:411,83217,291
Thailand111:6,421,668407,040
Sweden101:984,67673,605
India91:85,229,487684,495
Estonia81:165,22626,217
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Germany41:20,126,365436,245
Sri Lanka41:5,202,14012,146
Russia41:36,030,764577,589
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Wales31:1,031,51134,732
China31:455,773,85521,925
Kenya31:15,393,30077,493
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Liberia21:2,204,26840,131
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Finland21:2,748,35172,663
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Solomon Islands11:580,02922,243
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Moldova11:3,561,36878,271
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Jersey11:99,2026,620
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
France11:66,422,722504,397
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland841:52,7374,367
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1951:125,00211,754
Isle of Man1361:39978
Scotland131:287,9409,345
Wales11:1,568,41619,290
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6861:73,2057,843

Kinley (16,042) may also be a first name.

Kinley Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(Celtic) a contraction of MacKinley, q.v. (English) = Kenley, q.v.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Usually the Scottish Mac Fhionn Laoich in Antrim; sometimes Irish Mac an Leagha (MacAlee) q.v. MIF 121

A Guide to Irish Names (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

Probably contracted from Mac Cinfaolaidh, 'Cin- faoladh’s Son, ' a name which may be translated ‘Wolf- head’ (cean, ‘head’; faol, ‘wolf'). McBain, however, derives Mac Kinlay from Mac Fhion-nlaigh, which he thinks is from fionnlaoch, 'fair hero'.

'The first year of Ceannfaoladh, son of Blathmac, in the Sovereignty of Ireland, a.d. 670.’

Manx Names (1890) by Arthur William Moore

Kinley Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kinley Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kinley (Arabic: كينلي, Russian: Кинлей, Tibetan: ཀུན་ལེགས་) occurs most in The United States. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kinley.

How Common Is The Last Name Kinley? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 87,562nd most frequently used last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 1,326,697 people. This surname is primarily found in The Americas, where 72 percent of Kinley are found; 71 percent are found in North America and 71 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Kinley is also the 44,346th most widespread first name at a global level. It is borne by 16,042 people.

The surname is most common in The United States, where it is held by 3,824 people, or 1 in 94,785. In The United States it is most frequent in: North Carolina, where 16 percent live, South Carolina, where 7 percent live and California, where 6 percent live. Aside from The United States it is found in 45 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 9 percent live and England, where 7 percent live.

Kinley Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Kinley has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 557 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 192 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 300 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 99 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Kinley Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the surname is primarily Presbyterian (52%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Kinley surname are 21.87% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 68.64% registered with the party.

The amount Kinley earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 6.92% less than the national average, earning $40,164 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.78% more than the national average, earning $50,070 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kihnley9252/
Kinnley9228/
Kienley921/
Kinleye921/
Kinle91150/
Kinly9117/
Kckinley861/
Kienle835,404/
Kenley832,201/
Kinlay83127/
Kinlee8367/
Kienly838/
Kinnly834/
Kihnle833/
Kinleu831/
Cinley831/
Kinloy831/
Kihnly830/
Kionle830/
Kinlly830/
Qinley830/
Knle801/
Kinnelley800/
Kinnilley800/
Quinley771,222/
Kiehnle77270/
Keenley7776/
Kennley777/
Kinlaje776/
Kinloye774/
Cginley772/
Kuenley772/
Chinley771/
Kimnler771/
Kinleah771/
Kenleiy771/
Kinnlly770/
Knelley770/
Kinnler770/
Kuihnle770/
Kiehnly770/
Kinloeh770/
Kenly73854/
Kinli73383/
Kinla73159/
Künle7359/
Kenle7330/
Cinly7312/
Knhle732/
Qinle732/
Cnley731/
Cinle731/
Qinly731/
Kinnelly7154/
Kinglile711/
Chinnley710/
Quinlley710/
Kennlley710/
Quinnley710/
Kinnelle710/
Kühnle673,425/
Kennelley67276/
Knülle67168/
Chinle67160/
Knelly67120/
Quinly67120/
Kuenle6783/
Kenlly6781/
Kenlay6755/
Keenly6755/
Knölle6745/
Kehnle6736/
Knille6730/
Köhnle6729/
Kienli6722/
Knelle6717/
Künnle6716/
Kennly6710/
Kinlai6710/
Kenlee679/
Kenleh676/
Kinlahoue676/
Cinlay675/
Qinlei674/
Cenley672/
Keunle672/
Kinlah672/
Kühnly672/
Kenloe671/
Kienla671/
Kimlhe671/
Kuinla671/
Cinnelley671/
Cnlley671/
Quinle671/
Kenlei671/
Kienlé671/
Kinlla671/
Kenluy671/
Kenloy670/
Cinlee670/
Kionli670/
Qunley670/
Kehnly670/

Kinley Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kinley in the Tibetan language
ཀུན་ལེགས་künlek81.93
ཀུན་ལེགས།künlek12.56
ཀུན་ལས་künlé3.76
ཀུན་ལས།künlé0.66
ཀུན་ལེགསkünlek0.44
ཀུན་ལེགས་།künlek0.09
ཀུན་ལེགས་་künlek0.06
ཀུན་ལེས་künlé0.06
ཀུན་ལགས།künlak0.04
ཀེན་ལེགས་kenlek0.04
ཀེུན་ལེགས་künlek0.04
ཀུན་་ལེགས་künlek0.04
ཀུཡ་ལེགས་kuyalek0.02
ཀུན་ལགེས་künlagé0.02
ཁུན་ལེགས་khünlek0.02
ཀུད་ལེགས་külek0.02
ཀུན་ལེག་künlek0.02
ཀུནལེགས་kunlek0.02
ཀ྄ན་ལེགས་knlek0.02
ཀིན་ལེགས་kinlek0.02
ཀུན་ལགས་künlak0.02
ཀན་ལེགས་kenlek0.02
ཀུན་ལེཔས་künlepé0.02
འཕྲིན་ལས་trinlé0.02
ཀུན་དགའ་künga0.02
ཀུན་ལསkünlé0.02
དཀུན་ལས་künlé0.02
ཀུན་ལེག་ས་künleksa0.02
Kinley in the Russian language
Кинлейkinlej-
Kinley in the Arabic language
كينليkynly-

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