Kennedy
#85 for girls in 2025, 2,933 births · #1,837 for boys in 2025, 86 births
Given to girls 92.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 4,498 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 15 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 93,663since 1957
Kennedy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #85 | 2,933 | #1,837 | 86 |
| 2024 | #89 | 2,890 | #1,724 | 96 |
| 2023 | #72 | 3,075 | #1,640 | 105 |
| 2022 | #74 | 3,077 | #1,652 | 104 |
| 2021 | #70 | 3,443 | #1,621 | 104 |
| 2020 | #72 | 3,361 | #1,286 | 142 |
| 2019 | #67 | 3,692 | #1,337 | 135 |
| 2018 | #59 | 3,946 | #1,396 | 126 |
| 2017 | #58 | 4,162 | #1,293 | 140 |
| 2016 | #59 | 4,341 | #1,130 | 171 |
| 2015 | #58 | 4,523 | #1,141 | 165 |
| 2014 | #54 | 4,498 | #1,179 | 158 |
| 2013 | #65 | 3,961 | #1,169 | 154 |
| 2012 | #84 | 3,389 | #1,120 | 164 |
| 2011 | #91 | 3,248 | #1,350 | 125 |
| 2010 | #111 | 2,833 | #1,159 | 159 |
| 2009 | #115 | 2,863 | #1,202 | 150 |
| 2008 | #115 | 2,953 | #1,105 | 166 |
| 2007 | #110 | 3,054 | #1,157 | 153 |
| 2006 | #115 | 2,904 | #1,025 | 179 |
| 2005 | #118 | 2,826 | #995 | 173 |
| 2004 | #117 | 2,886 | #925 | 183 |
| 2003 | #122 | 2,774 | #959 | 170 |
| 2002 | #136 | 2,513 | #848 | 195 |
| 2001 | #138 | 2,406 | #867 | 185 |
| 2000 | #139 | 2,390 | #949 | 160 |
| 1999 | #165 | 1,892 | #905 | 165 |
| 1998 | #183 | 1,658 | #927 | 152 |
| 1997 | #186 | 1,624 | #795 | 185 |
| 1996 | #208 | 1,418 | #840 | 169 |
| 1995 | #229 | 1,235 | #860 | 159 |
| 1994 | #524 | 473 | #917 | 142 |
| 1993 | #1,271 | 134 | #1,254 | 82 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 | #1,187 | 88 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | #1,467 | 60 |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 | #1,306 | 72 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #1,205 | 79 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #1,341 | 59 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 | #1,379 | 53 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #1,389 | 49 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #1,190 | 59 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #1,490 | 41 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | — | #1,996 | 27 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #2,048 | 25 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,134 | 22 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,441 | 35 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,278 | 42 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #1,396 | 33 |
| 1968 | — | #986 | 56 | |
| 1967 | — | #910 | 63 | |
| 1966 | — | #778 | 87 | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #676 | 121 |
| 1964 | — | #516 | 229 | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #616 | 159 |
| 1962 | — | #817 | 86 | |
| 1961 | — | #591 | 178 | |
| 1960 | — | #720 | 117 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,759 | 21 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #1,583 | 25 |
| 1956 | — | #2,015 | 16 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,682 | 21 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,762 | 19 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,725 | 19 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,111 | 13 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,599 | 22 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,271 | 11 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,574 | 19 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,478 | 9 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,693 | 19 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,265 | 14 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,280 | 12 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,389 | 11 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kennedy! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kennedy is popular in 1965
No state had 5 or more girls named Kennedy in 1965, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kennedy
- 4 spots since 2024 (#89 → #85)
- 13 spots since 2020 (#72 → #85)
- 27 spots since 2015 (#58 → #85)
- Biggest jump: 747 spots in 1994 (#1,271 → #524)
- Biggest drop: 17 spots in 2024 (#72 → #89)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2014 at #54 (4,498 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 395 girls born in 2015 were named Kennedy (0.25%)
- Latest: 1 in 548 girls born in 2025 (0.18%)
- Its best rank, #54 in 2014, was only 1 in 397 (0.25%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.2% of all girls named Kennedy (38,593) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1992, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,086 (1957) | #6,086 |
| 1960s | 16 | #5,891 (1963) | #6,634 |
| 1970s | 23 | #7,649 (1978) | #8,845 |
| 1980s | 126 | #3,524 (1987) | #6,032 |
| 1990s | 8,552 | #165 (1999) | #1,164 |
| 2000s | 27,569 | #110 (2007) | #123 |
| 2010s | 38,593 | #54 (2014) | #71 |
| 2020s | 18,779 | #70 (2021) | #77 |
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.
Kennedy in 1965
Top girls' names in 1965
Top boys' names in 1965
More about 1965
girls
1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 353,033 of them was named Kennedy, which outranked 13.2% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 996 names at #6,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,860,143 boys got a published name in 1965; 1 in 15,373 of them was named Kennedy, which outranked 84.7% of the 4,425 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).