Kenedi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEN-a-dee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Kenedi is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “probably helmeted head”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Kenedi mean?
Irish: spelling of Kennedy; from the Irish surname Ó Cinnéide
“probably helmeted head”
From the Irish surname Ó Cinnéide; Cennétig, father of the high king Brian Boru, was an early bearer.
Meaning borrowed from Kennedy. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kenedi a girl's or a boy's name?
Kenedi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kenedi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Kenedi, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 59 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Kenedi in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,370 girls in the US were given Kenedi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #88, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Kenedi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,743 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,894 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,766 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,495 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,676 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,088 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,992 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,005 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,123 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,468 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,519 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,762 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,522 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,566 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,911 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,122 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,448 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,964 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
Names like Kenedi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Cassidy Kennadi Kerrigan Keegan Mckenna Brynn Devyn Keeley Codi Kenley Brynlee
Other spellings of Kenedi
Names related to Kenedi
More Irish names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kenedi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kenedi, updated 20 October 2026.