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.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,345 of them was named Kennedi, which outranked 92.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,225Renae143
- #1,225Ricki143
- #1,225Star143
- #1,232Kennedi142
- #1,232Catrina142
- #1,232Kelsy142
- #1,232Makaila142
- #1,238Camilla141
- #1,238Corrine141
- #1,238Elle141
Tied with 5 names at #1,232; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.