Kynedi
Girl · KEN-uh-dee · Irish
Kynedi is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “armoured head”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Kynedi mean?
Irish: spelling of Kynnedi; modern spelling of Kennedy, from Irish O Cinneide
“armoured head”
Kennedy began as an Irish surname and spread as a first name after US President John F. Kennedy.
- Say it
- KEN-uh-dee
Meaning borrowed from Kynnedi.
Is Kynedi a girl's or a boy's name?
Kynedi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kynedi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kynedi, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Kynedi in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 141 girls in the US were given Kynedi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,330, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Kynedi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
Names like Kynedi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Kynedi
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