as a Last Name
- 196,070
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kennedy
Meaning & Origins
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.
| 125th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 196,070
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Kennedy per capita
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