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Kennadi

Gender
Girl
Say it
KEN-uh-dee
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#4,545 for girls

Kennadi is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “helmeted head”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).

What does Kennadi mean?

Irish: variant of Kennedy, from Irish O Cinneide

“helmeted head”

From the Irish surname borne by US President John F. Kennedy.

Is Kennadi a girl's or a boy's name?

Kennadi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kennadi in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,545th among girls
Babies in 2025
30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fast down 61% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Kennadi, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,416th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 137 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

Half of all the girls named Kennadi in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 141 girls in the US were given Kennadi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,330, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.

1995Busiest: 137 in 20122025
Kennadi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#4,545
202430#4,558
202335#4,112
202247#3,364
202163#2,715
202072#2,416
201974#2,400
201896#2,026
2017114#1,815
2016112#1,841
2015102#1,964
201499#1,997
201395#2,032
2012137#1,583
201198#2,000
2010128#1,658
2009115#1,848
2008117#1,834
2007103#1,988
200678#2,396
200573#2,403
200461#2,675
200347#3,128
200260#2,579
200142#3,252
200039#3,399
199922#4,864
199824#4,489
199721#4,815
199611#7,569
199523#4,343

Names like Kennadi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kennadi

Names related to Kennadi

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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, “Kennadi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kennadi, updated 20 October 2026.