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Kennedy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,933 in 2025. Its best rank was #54 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #54 in 2014; #85 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Kennedy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#85 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #54.
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Kennedy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,933 girls in 2025. Peak: #54 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 4,523 (2015).
In 2025, 2,933 US girls were named Kennedy, making it the 85th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4 places from #89 in 2024. That is 43 more than the 2,890 girls named Kennedy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #54, reached in 2014. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,523, in 2015. For comparison, it was #58 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kennedy in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 101,120 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 40,090 babies named Kennedy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 34,920 US girls were named Kennedy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,341. In 2025 that was about 1 in 548 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kennedy ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #35 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 32 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kennedi (15,552 babies since 1880), Kennadi (2,168 babies since 1880), Kennady (1,850 babies since 1880) and Kynnedi (1,401 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kenedi, Kenedy and Kenady are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ken and Kenny.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kenedi (1,037), Kenedy (628), Kenady (543), Kynnedy (488), Kennedee (417), Kennidy (417), Kennidi (362), Kenidy (106), Kinnedy (83), Kennedii (80), Kennedey (70), Kinnedi (16), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 27 | #35 | #107 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #36 | #52 |
| Pennsylvania | 155 | #52 | #44 |
| Georgia | 132 | #55 | #38 |
| North Carolina | 143 | #55 | #35 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #56 | #113 |
| Michigan | 105 | #59 | #33 |
| Delaware | 12 | #61 | #50 |
| Alabama | 57 | #63 | #48 |
| Kentucky | 57 | #64 | #34 |
| Maine | 14 | #69 | #92 |
| Missouri | 73 | #69 | #49 |
| South Carolina | 54 | #69 | #36 |
| Arkansas | 36 | #70 | #28 |
| Mississippi | 28 | #72 | #53 |
| Wisconsin | 61 | #74 | #45 |
| West Virginia | 18 | #76 | #31 |
| Colorado | 63 | #77 | #66 |
| Ohio | 115 | #77 | #32 |
| Virginia | 83 | #78 | #43 |
| Idaho | 24 | #79 | #73 |
| Vermont | 5 | #83 | #69 |
| Minnesota | 58 | #86 | #63 |
| Tennessee | 80 | #87 | #44 |
| Maryland | 47 | #88 | #48 |
| Illinois | 95 | #89 | #67 |
| Massachusetts | 62 | #90 | #169 |
| Nebraska | 22 | #91 | #29 |
| Montana | 10 | #93 | #47 |
| Connecticut | 29 | #96 | #99 |
| Utah | 42 | #98 | #71 |
| Iowa | 31 | #98 | #53 |
| Kansas | 31 | #101 | #49 |
| Arizona | 59 | #104 | #46 |
| Florida | 160 | #105 | #64 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #108 | #34 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #109 | #81 |
| Washington | 58 | #110 | #65 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #110 | #64 |
| Oregon | 31 | #111 | #77 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #114 | #48 |
| Texas | 262 | #117 | #64 |
| New York | 126 | #122 | #114 |
| New Jersey | 57 | #136 | #124 |
| Indiana | 49 | #137 | #40 |
| Nevada | 18 | #138 | #101 |
| California | 215 | #142 | #119 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #173 | #56 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #199 | #117 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,933 | #85 | 86 | #1,842 |
| 2024 | 2,890 | #89 | 96 | #1,727 |
| 2023 | 3,075 | #72 | 105 | #1,644 |
| 2022 | 3,077 | #74 | 104 | #1,660 |
| 2021 | 3,443 | #70 | 104 | #1,625 |
| 2020 | 3,361 | #72 | 142 | #1,286 |
| 2019 | 3,692 | #68 | 135 | #1,338 |
| 2018 | 3,946 | #59 | 126 | #1,398 |
| 2017 | 4,162 | #58 | 140 | #1,296 |
| 2016 | 4,341 | #59 | 171 | #1,132 |
| 2015 | 4,523 | #58 | 165 | #1,143 |
| 2014 | 4,498 | #54 | 158 | #1,182 |
| 2013 | 3,961 | #65 | 154 | #1,172 |
| 2012 | 3,389 | #84 | 164 | #1,122 |
| 2011 | 3,248 | #91 | 125 | #1,355 |
| 2010 | 2,833 | #111 | 159 | #1,161 |
| 2009 | 2,863 | #115 | 150 | #1,207 |
| 2008 | 2,953 | #115 | 166 | #1,108 |
| 2007 | 3,054 | #110 | 153 | #1,161 |
| 2006 | 2,904 | #115 | 179 | #1,026 |
| 2005 | 2,826 | #118 | 173 | #998 |
| 2004 | 2,886 | #117 | 183 | #926 |
| 2003 | 2,774 | #122 | 170 | #961 |
| 2002 | 2,513 | #136 | 195 | #853 |
| 2001 | 2,406 | #138 | 185 | #869 |
| 2000 | 2,390 | #139 | 160 | #955 |
| 1999 | 1,892 | #165 | 165 | #907 |
| 1998 | 1,658 | #183 | 152 | #929 |
| 1997 | 1,624 | #186 | 185 | #796 |
| 1996 | 1,418 | #208 | 169 | #840 |
| 1995 | 1,235 | #229 | 159 | #860 |
| 1994 | 473 | #524 | 142 | #923 |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,277 | 82 | #1,257 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,632 | 88 | #1,191 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,331 | 60 | #1,474 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,983 | 72 | #1,311 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,734 | 79 | #1,211 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,454 | 59 | #1,349 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,574 | 53 | #1,393 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,630 | 49 | #1,426 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,245 | 49 | #1,403 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,519 | 59 | #1,195 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,989 | 41 | #1,502 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,162 | 28 | #1,964 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,019 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,174 | 20 | #2,488 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,518 | 25 | #2,075 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,045 | 22 | #2,163 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,364 | 21 | #2,242 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,904 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,756 | 21 | #2,170 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,025 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,362 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,122 |
| 1971 | — | — | 35 | #1,452 |
| 1970 | — | — | 42 | #1,286 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,006 | 33 | #1,403 |
| 1968 | — | — | 56 | #991 |
| 1967 | — | — | 63 | #912 |
| 1966 | — | — | 87 | #781 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,987 | 121 | #677 |
| 1964 | — | — | 229 | #518 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,205 | 159 | #618 |
| 1962 | — | — | 86 | #819 |
| 1961 | — | — | 178 | #592 |
| 1960 | — | — | 117 | #720 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,782 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,752 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,560 | 25 | #1,609 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,049 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,710 |
| 1954 | — | — | 19 | #1,794 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,800 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,325 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,756 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,156 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #1,985 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,498 |
| 1947 | — | — | 22 | #1,627 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,489 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,609 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,802 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,397 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,583 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,362 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,791 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,343 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,458 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,483 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,587 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,731 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,120 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,956 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,308 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,268 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,275 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,746 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,038 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,719 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,316 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,359 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,251 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,356 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,472 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,235 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,544 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,736 |
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).