Kennedy — #89 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kennedy

The Social Security Administration has registered 90,712 babies named Kennedy between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kennedy currently holds the #89 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 4,522 babies received it in a single year. Kennedy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,368 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kennedy performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 38,589 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kennedy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 8,516 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kennedy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kennedy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 90,712 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.