Girls' name · since 1996
Kennedey
Kennedey has 70 recorded births since 1996 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 70
- total births
- 1996–2009
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Kennedey sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 70 recorded since 1996.
Kennedey has 70 recorded births among girls since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2009.
- 70 total births
- 1996–2009 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kennedey's 70 recorded births place it above 57% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kennedey's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kennedey's full recorded timeline at 2004, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2008, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1998 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kennedey popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2009
- Peak year (1998)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Kennedey by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Kennedey's strongest decade.
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Kennedey births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
32 births
- 2000s
2000s
38 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 38 births (54% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kennedey: Baby Name Since 1996 - 70 Births, Peak 1998." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kennedey. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kennedey draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.