Kennedie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEN-a-dee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Kennedie is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “probably helmeted head”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Kennedie 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 Kennedie a girl's or a boy's name?
Kennedie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kennedie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Kennedie, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 83 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the fewest girls named Kennedie since it first appeared, in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Kennedie in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,370 girls in the US were given Kennedie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #88, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Kennedie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,303 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,143 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,650 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,902 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,795 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,562 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,547 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,754 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,311 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,555 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,478 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,586 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,953 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,670 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,194 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,476 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,371 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,012 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,478 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,500 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
Names like Kennedie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Cassidy, Keegan, Kerrigan, Mckenna, Brynn, Devyn, Brynlee, Keeley, Kenley, Kiara, Keely
Other spellings of Kennedie
Names related to Kennedie
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey
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, “Kennedie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kennedie, updated 20 October 2026.