Kennedi
#707 for girls in 2025, 398 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 848 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,537since 1989
Kennedi over time
Rank among girls' names. Kennedi has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #707 | 398 | — | |
| 2024 | #685 | 416 | — | |
| 2023 | #625 | 474 | — | |
| 2022 | #558 | 548 | — | |
| 2021 | #523 | 590 | — | |
| 2020 | #523 | 578 | — | |
| 2019 | #503 | 626 | — | |
| 2018 | #440 | 724 | — | |
| 2017 | #442 | 717 | — | |
| 2016 | #416 | 800 | — | |
| 2015 | #386 | 848 | — | |
| 2014 | #415 | 770 | — | |
| 2013 | #445 | 690 | — | |
| 2012 | #511 | 597 | — | |
| 2011 | #445 | 694 | — | |
| 2010 | #490 | 617 | — | |
| 2009 | #468 | 663 | — | |
| 2008 | #556 | 554 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #558 | 545 | — | |
| 2006 | #622 | 467 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #629 | 444 | — | |
| 2004 | #636 | 429 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #642 | 414 | — | |
| 2002 | #704 | 355 | — | |
| 2001 | #741 | 322 | — | |
| 2000 | #789 | 291 | — | |
| 1999 | #803 | 272 | — | |
| 1998 | #991 | 203 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,155 | 160 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,232 | 142 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,392 | 118 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,848 | 42 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | — | |
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| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kennedi! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kennedi is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#81 · 1 in 363
- Arkansas#183 · 1 in 680
- Louisiana#199 · 1 in 744
- South Carolina#214 · 1 in 844
- Georgia#237 · 1 in 1,006
Best ever in a state: #65 in Mississippi, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #81 | 27 | 1 in 363 |
| Arkansas | #183 | 16 | 1 in 680 |
| Louisiana | #199 | 25 | 1 in 744 |
| South Carolina | #214 | 21 | 1 in 844 |
| Georgia | #237 | 45 | 1 in 1,006 |
| North Carolina | #257 | 42 | 1 in 1,073 |
| Alabama | #270 | 18 | 1 in 1,060 |
| Tennessee | #272 | 28 | 1 in 1,115 |
| Illinois | #350 | 31 | 1 in 1,561 |
| Michigan | #362 | 25 | 1 in 1,533 |
| Virginia | #373 | 22 | 1 in 1,572 |
| Iowa | #386 | 8 | 1 in 1,461 |
| Kentucky | #415 | 10 | 1 in 1,702 |
| Missouri | #422 | 14 | 1 in 1,766 |
| Connecticut | #477 | 6 | 1 in 2,003 |
| Indiana | #512 | 13 | 1 in 2,183 |
| Texas | #568 | 56 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Pennsylvania | #603 | 17 | 1 in 2,870 |
| Florida | #623 | 27 | 1 in 3,096 |
| Minnesota | #632 | 8 | 1 in 2,785 |
| Wisconsin | #660 | 7 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Arizona | #680 | 9 | 1 in 3,082 |
| Ohio | #840 | 11 | 1 in 4,419 |
| Washington | #866 | 7 | 1 in 4,217 |
| New York | #925 | 16 | 1 in 5,078 |
| New Jersey | #1,046 | 6 | 1 in 6,071 |
| California | #1,241 | 21 | 1 in 8,311 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kennedi
- 22 spots since 2024 (#685 → #707)
- 184 spots since 2020 (#523 → #707)
- 321 spots since 2015 (#386 → #707)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1999 (#991 → #803)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2023 (#558 → #625)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2015 at #386 (848 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,105 girls born in 2015 were named Kennedi (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,038 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 45.6% of all girls named Kennedi (7,083) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 961 | #803 (1999) | #2,889 |
| 2000s | 4,484 | #468 (2009) | #635 |
| 2010s | 7,083 | #386 (2015) | #449 |
| 2020s | 3,004 | #523 (2021) | #604 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kennedi in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,781 of them was named Kennedi, which outranked 97.0% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.