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Kennedy

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkɛnədi//

A surname from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Irish.

    A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females.

  2. 2

    A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

  3. 3

    A unisex given name. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern American usage.

  4. 4

    rareA unisex given name. A male given name transferred from the surname.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Lamar County, Alabama.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Spencer County, Indiana.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Kittson County, Minnesota.

  10. 10

    A number of places in the United States: An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.

  11. 11

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska.

  12. 12

    A number of places in the United States: A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Poland, Chautauqua County, New York.

  13. 13

    A number of places in the United States: A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

  14. 14

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the town of Lake, Price County, Wisconsin.

  15. 15

    A railway point and unincorporated place in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.

  16. 16

    A village in the Rural Municipality of Wawken No. 93, Saskatchewan, Canada.

  17. 17

    A neighbourhood (locality) in Bogotá, Colombia.

  18. 18

    A coastal locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish Ó Cinnéidigh (ceann (“head”) + éidigh (“ugly”)) or Scottish Gaelic Ceannaideach (ceann (“head”) + aideach (“ugly”). Compare Kenneth and Irish eitigh (“refuse, reject”).

Forms

plural
Kennedys, Kennedies
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).