Kenedi
Kenedi was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,318 among girls’ names; 1,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Kenedi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenedi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenedi?
#5,318 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenedi fell from #3,810 in 2015 to #5,318 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 14.9 per million.
59 babies in 2007, the peak
Kenedi peaked in 2007, when 59 girls were given it, #3,014 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,318 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,527 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,806 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,910 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,725 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,066 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,562 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,660 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,588 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,482 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,810 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,548 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,814 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,177 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,524 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,511 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,708 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,133 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,014 | 30.7 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,408 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,030 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,149 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,499 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,548 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,788 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,552 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,597 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,972 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,182 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,512 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,025 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,133 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenedi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kenedi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kenedi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenedi, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,037 Americans ever recorded as Kenedi. The median Kenedi alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Kenedi (808 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 349 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kenedi born?
The states with the most babies named Kenedi are Texas, Georgia and California, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 108 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenedi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kenedi?
Kenedi is a less common spelling of Kennedy: SSA has recorded 1,037 Kenedi and 101,120 Kennedy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 127,050 babies since 1880, Kenedi is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 3,514 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenedi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kenedi and names like it
- Compare Kenedi and KennedyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKenedi peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenedi since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kenedi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kenedi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.