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Kennedy vs Kenner

American parents have registered 101,120 Kennedys since 1880, against 546 Kenners. Kennedy is still ahead, with 3,019 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kennedy against Kenner, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kennedy Kenner

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 109 years in which either name was published, Kennedy for 108 years and Kenner for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kennedy Kenner
Total US births 101,120546
Most in one year 4,68831
Babies in 2025 3,01915
Estimated living today 100,000520
Median age today 1311
Peak year 20152015
Best rank 58th girls3,513th boys
Rank in 2025 85th5,861st
First recorded 19121932
Girls / boys 93,663 / 7,4570 / 546

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kennedys alive today are over 13; half the Kenners are over 11. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kennedy and Kenner.