Popularity of the last name by country
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- Strathclyde (58,798)
- Lancashire (9,619)
- Lothian (8,793)
- London (7,792)
- Antrim (7,467)
- Dumfries and Galloway (5,473)
- Northumberland (5,164)
- County Durham (4,684)
- Grampian (4,637)
- Tayside (4,278)
- Cumbria (3,978)
- Londonderry (3,376)
- Kent (2,526)
- Fifeshire (2,288)
- Central (2,031)
- Down (1,957)
- Armagh (1,673)
- North Yorkshire (1,654)
- Warwickshire (1,291)
- Surrey (1,248)
- Norfolk (1,216)
- Gloucestershire (1,184)
- Highlands (1,084)
- Orkney Isles (1,059)
- Hampshire (942)
- Cheshire (851)
- Essex (797)
- Staffordshire (789)
- Lincolnshire (651)
- Cambridgeshire (577)
- Borders (525)
- East Sussex (511)
- Derbyshire (492)
- Buckinghamshire (445)
- Tyne and Wear (418)
- Isle of Man (374)
- Devon (369)
- Tyrone (369)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (350)
- Cleveland (335)
- Suffolk (333)
- Merseyside (296)
- Cornwall (263)
- Somerset (258)
- West Yorkshire (257)
- Dorset (248)
- Oxfordshire (247)
- Hertfordshire (214)
- Wiltshire (191)
- Berkshire (185)
- Bedfordshire (164)
- Leicestershire (153)
- Northamptonshire (151)
- Nottinghamshire (145)
- Shropshire (118)
- West Midlands (113)
- South Yorkshire (102)
- Avon (101)
- Shetland Isles (97)
- Gwent (95)
All countries
- United States (236,684)
- United Kingdom (180,770)
- Ireland (137,439)
- Australia (32,803)
- New Zealand (20,899)
- Canada (17,972)
- France (7,369)
- Switzerland (3,963)
- Unknown country (3,022)
- Netherlands (1,635)
- Italy (1,328)
- Germany (1,223)
- Belgium (648)
- Sweden (534)
- Mexico (478)
- Colombia (406)
- India (357)
- Cuba (353)
- Russian Federation (334)
- Spain (277)
- South Africa (274)
- China (273)
- Estonia (249)
- Poland (217)
- Austria (188)
- Turkey (176)
- Argentina (168)
- Greece (167)
- Jamaica (157)
- Indonesia (129)
- Viet Nam (122)
- Egypt (121)
- Brazil (119)
- Paraguay (107)
- Japan (101)
- Portugal (98)
- Korea, Republic of (97)
- Peru (93)
- Philippines (76)
- Panama (73)
Origine of last name
KENNEDY : Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’ (from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’); or from the Scottish Gaelic Mac Cinnèidigh consisting of mac ‘son’ with an equivalent name. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Canaday">Canaday</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Cannady">Cannady</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Cannedy">Cannedy</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kannady">Kannady</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kenedy">Kenedy</a>.
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