Kennedy
Kennedy is ranked 89th among girls in 2024 (2,881 births). Its best rank was 54th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #89down 17 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,8810.18% of girls
- Peak year
- 20154,522 births
- Best rank
- #54in 2014
- Since 1957
- 98,080people given the name
The story in the numbers
90,712 girls have been named Kennedy in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 4,522 births — 0.25% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 54 → 89).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 7,368 boys have also been given it, 7.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Kennedy was the 58th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Kennedy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Khaliyahpeak 2009
- Myraclepeak 2019
- Aliahpeak 2015
- Skylynpeak 2014
- Zahraapeak 2015
- Dariannapeak 2013
- Kennedipeak 2015
- Zaydapeak 2020
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.