Meaning not yet researched.
Kennedi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 398 in 2025. Its best rank was #387 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #387 in 2015; #709 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kennedi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#709 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #387.
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Kennedi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 398 girls in 2025. Peak: #387 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 848 (2015).
In 2025, 398 US girls were named Kennedi, making it the 709th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #685 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 416 girls named Kennedi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #387, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 848. For comparison, it was #387 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kennedi in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 15,552 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,083 babies named Kennedi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,871 US girls were named Kennedi; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 800. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,038 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kennedi ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #201 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kennedy (101,120 babies since 1880), Kennadi (2,168 babies since 1880), Kennady (1,850 babies since 1880) and Kenadi (1,583 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kennadie, Kynedi and Kynnadi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kennadie (724), Kynedi (311), Kynnadi (222), Kenidi (171), Kenedie (144), Kinnidi (26), Kynnidi (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kennedi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 5 | #201 | — |
| West Virginia | 8 | #218 | #180 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #235 | #118 |
| Alabama | 19 | #255 | #129 |
| Georgia | 40 | #260 | #119 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #340 | #185 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #354 | #173 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #365 | #71 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #375 | #281 |
| Nevada | 6 | #471 | — |
| Virginia | 16 | #501 | #294 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #518 | #623 |
| Missouri | 10 | #575 | #224 |
| Florida | 31 | #577 | #347 |
| Maryland | 9 | #577 | #265 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #584 | #142 |
| Michigan | 12 | #662 | #325 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #707 | #406 |
| Ohio | 13 | #729 | #409 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #852 | #340 |
| Texas | 34 | #868 | #485 |
| Illinois | 9 | #965 | #380 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,274 | #1,276 |
| New York | 9 | #1,462 | #1,176 |
| California | 11 | #1,893 | #958 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 398 | #709 | — | — |
| 2024 | 416 | #685 | — | — |
| 2023 | 474 | #625 | — | — |
| 2022 | 548 | #558 | — | — |
| 2021 | 590 | #523 | — | — |
| 2020 | 578 | #524 | — | — |
| 2019 | 626 | #503 | — | — |
| 2018 | 724 | #440 | — | — |
| 2017 | 717 | #442 | — | — |
| 2016 | 800 | #416 | — | — |
| 2015 | 848 | #387 | — | — |
| 2014 | 770 | #416 | — | — |
| 2013 | 690 | #445 | — | — |
| 2012 | 597 | #511 | — | — |
| 2011 | 694 | #445 | — | — |
| 2010 | 617 | #490 | — | — |
| 2009 | 663 | #469 | — | — |
| 2008 | 554 | #556 | 5 | #13,640 |
| 2007 | 545 | #558 | — | — |
| 2006 | 467 | #622 | 5 | #13,092 |
| 2005 | 444 | #631 | — | — |
| 2004 | 429 | #637 | 5 | #12,352 |
| 2003 | 414 | #642 | — | — |
| 2002 | 355 | #705 | — | — |
| 2001 | 322 | #743 | — | — |
| 2000 | 291 | #789 | — | — |
| 1999 | 272 | #803 | — | — |
| 1998 | 203 | #996 | — | — |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,103 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,112 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,406 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).