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Kennedy

in the US

There are 136,265 people with the last name "Kennedy" in the United States.

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Kennedy 121
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  1. is 117th most common Ford
  2. is 118th most common Harrison
  3. is 119th most common Mcdonald
  4. is 120th most common Reyes
  5. is 121st most common Kennedy
  6. is 122nd most common Wells
  7. is 123rd most common Owens
  8. is 124th most common Burns
  9. is 125th most common Woods

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kennedy

John, James, Robert, Michael, William, David, Thomas, Mary, Richard, Joseph

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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