Kenedy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kenedy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs and. see Kennedy .
- BRBrazil1 in 25K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 53K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs and. see Kennedy .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kenedy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Kenedy | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,315 | 1 in 25K | 8.3K | Kenedy | 78 |
| US United States | — | 827 | 1 in 402K | 636 | Kenedy | 58 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Kenedy | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Kenedy | 16 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Kenedy | 8 |
| VU Vanuatu | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #707 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kenedy | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kenedyb. 1996BRBrazilian association football player
- Evano Tangkab. 2007IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 508 | #40,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 485 | #44,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 424 | #52,802 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kenedy mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs and. see Kennedy . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Kenedy a male or female name?
- Kenedy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kenedy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Kenedy in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenedy.
- How common is the name Kenedy?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,315 people named Kenedy in 2022, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Kenedy compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Kenedy is the 707th most common given name of 878 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenedyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kenedy” — the 707th most common given name in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.