Kennedy (given name)

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Kennedy Given Name
Gender	unisex
Meaning	"Descendant of Ceannéidigh, "ugly head"
Origin	Irish
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Kennedy

Kennedy is a given name derived from an Irish surname that is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh meaning "descendant of Ceannéidigh". The Gaelic personal name Ceannéidigh is derived from ceann meaning "head" + éidigh meaning "ugly".^[1]

Kennedy was the 110th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and has ranked among the top 200 names for American girls since 1997. It first appeared among the top 1,000 names for American girls in 1994.^[2] Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, whose stage name is Kennedy, appeared on MTV as a video jockey during the 1990s. A child character named Kennedy appeared on the American television series Blossom during its last year on the air in 1994.

Kennedy last appeared among the 1,000 most popular names for boys born in the United States in 2005, when it was ranked as the 995th most popular name for American boys. It was ranked among the top 1,000 most popular names for boys between 1960 and 1968 and again from 1994 to 2005, but has never been among the top 500 most popular names.^[3] The name's first usage for boys coincided with the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and the later Presidential campaign of his brother Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.

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