Kennedy Girl Name
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The name Kennedy is of Gaelic origin, and means armoured head.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Kennedy has been given to baby girls in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.
| Use of the Name Kennedy for Girls During the Last ... | ||||||
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| 125 Years | 50 Years | 25 Years | 10 Years | 5 Years | 2 Years | 1 Year |
| 21,204 | 21,204 | 21,204 | 20,732 | 12,906 | 5,613 | 2,850 |
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| Year | Rank | Count | Rank | Count |
| 1960 | 723 | 116 | ||
| 1961 | 592 | 178 | ||
| 1962 | 828 | 85 | ||
| 1963 | 620 | 159 | ||
| 1964 | 516 | 229 | ||
| 1965 | 673 | 121 | ||
| 1966 | 787 | 86 | ||
| 1967 | 910 | 63 | ||
| 1968 | 986 | 56 | ||
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| 1994 | 524 | 472 | 921 | 142 |
| 1995 | 229 | 1,234 | 858 | 159 |
| 1996 | 207 | 1,418 | 839 | 169 |
| 1997 | 186 | 1,624 | 795 | 185 |
| 1998 | 182 | 1,658 | 927 | 152 |
| 1999 | 165 | 1,892 | 903 | 165 |
| 2000 | 139 | 2,385 | 951 | 160 |
| 2001 | 138 | 2,403 | 867 | 185 |
| 2002 | 136 | 2,505 | 850 | 194 |
| 2003 | 122 | 2,763 | 951 | 170 |
| 2004 | 115 | 2,850 | 929 | 178 |
| Totals: | 21,204 | 2,952 | ||
During the last 125 years, parents have used Kennedy as a girl's name about 87% of the time and less frequently (about 12% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Kennedy appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 11 times during the last 125 years.
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