Kennedy
22
Babies in 2024
+5%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 91
+22%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Kennedy
Kennedy peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (91 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 22 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Kennedy reached its peak in 1997, when 91 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #357 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 22 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,010 girls have been officially registered with the name Kennedy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 265 girls were registered with the name, starting from 21 in 2014 and ending at 22 in 2024.