Kennedi
Kennedi was given to 398 girls in 2025, #709 among girls’ names; 15,552 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,400 Americans named Kennedi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kennedi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kennedi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kennedi is “a female given name.”
Fanciful variant of Kennedy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kennedi?
#709 among girls’ names, 2025
Kennedi fell from #387 in 2015 to #709 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.48 to 0.25 per 1,000.
848 babies in 2015, the peak
Kennedi peaked in 2015, when 848 girls were given it, #387 among girls’ names. The 398 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 398 | #709 | 0.25 |
| 2024 | 416 | #685 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 474 | #625 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 548 | #558 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 590 | #523 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 578 | #524 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 626 | #503 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 724 | #440 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 717 | #442 | 0.42 |
| 2016 | 800 | #416 | 0.45 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 848 | #387 | 0.48 |
| 2014 | 770 | #416 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 690 | #445 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 597 | #511 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 694 | #445 | 0.39 |
| 2010 | 617 | #490 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 663 | #469 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 554 | #556 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 545 | #558 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 467 | #622 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 444 | #631 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 429 | #637 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 414 | #642 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 355 | #705 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 322 | #743 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 291 | #789 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 272 | #802 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 203 | #995 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,156 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 142 | #1,232 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,395 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,857 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,097 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,399 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kennedi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kennedi has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kennedi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kennedi, and how old are they?
15,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,552 Americans ever recorded as Kennedi. The median Kennedi alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 10,494 people named Kennedi (10,433 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,600 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 325 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,130 |
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 Kennedi born?
The states with the most babies named Kennedi are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 40 | #260 | 2.7× |
| Texas | 34 | #868 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 31 | #577 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #375 | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 19 | #235 | 3.7× |
| Alabama | 19 | #255 | 2.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | #501 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 15 | #340 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #707 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #584 | 2.0× |
Where Kennedi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kennedi is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1989 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kennedi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 125,415 babies since 1880, Kennedi is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 398 of their 3,524 babies (11%), again the second most given.
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 Kennedi
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 Kennedi and names like it
- Compare Kennedi and KennedyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKennedi peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kennedi since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kennedi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kennedi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.