Kennede
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Kennede by the numbers
Kennede was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 27 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kennede
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kennede. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kennedymisshapen head; an Irish surname used as given name4,277 in the US (2017)
- Kennediugly head; a respelling of Kennedy713 in the US (2017)
- Kennediehelmeted chief; variant of Kennedy33 in the US (2017)
- Kennedeeugly head; a form of Kennedy11 in the US (2017)
- Kenleeroyal meadow; a form of Kingsley121 in the US (2017)
- Kennadia form of kennedy112 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kennede
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