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Kennedy

in Minnesota

There are 1,940 people with the last name "Kennedy" in Minnesota.

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Ranking in Minnesota

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Kennedy 131
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  1. is 127th most common Murray
  2. is 128th most common Palmer
  3. is 129th most common Zimmerman
  4. is 130th most common Sorenson
  5. is 131st most common Kennedy
  6. is 132nd most common Long
  7. is 133rd most common Cole
  8. is 134th most common Myers
  9. is 135th most common Snyder

Similar Names and Nicknames

Kenney, Kenny, Kenneth, Kennard, Kenner, Kennon, Kennett, Kennelly, Kennison, Kennerly

Most Common First Names for Kennedy

Michael, John, James, David, Robert, Mary, Thomas, William, Charles, Daniel

Meaning & History

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.

FOREBEARS Kennedy ancestral lands are found both in Ireland and in Scotland, where the family's medieval ancestral seat is sited on the Ayrshire coast, facing the Irish Sea. The great-grandparents of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) came to North America as immigrants from Ireland in the 1840s. His paternal great-grandparents were Patrick Kennedy (1823–58), born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and Bridget Murphy, who was born probably in Owenduff, County Wexford, Ireland in about 1827; they came to Boston, MA, in 1849. His maternal great-grandparents were Thomas Fitzgerald (1823–85), who was born in Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, and Rose Anna Cox, who was born probably in Tomregan or Kinawley, County Cavan, Ireland, in about 1835; they came to Boston, MA, in 1857. An early Scottish Kennedy forebear of a quite different family was British colonial official Archibald Kennedy (1685–1763), the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, who emigrated to NY about 1710.

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