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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kennedy

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#85

up +4 places

2025 births

2,933

up +43 births

All-time births

93,663

3% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2015
4,523 births
Best rank
#54
in 2014
First recorded
1957
#6,560 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2012
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
53 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20154,523#58Peak
  2. 20144,498#54
  3. 20164,341#59
  4. 20174,162#58
  5. 20133,961#65

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #54 in 2014 · peak births 4,523 in 2015

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 7% boys■ 93% girls

7,457 boys · 93,663 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Kennedy has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.