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The kennedy Surname

kennedy Name Meaning and History

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kennedy name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kennedy family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kennedy Families in the US in 1920
Number of kennedy families
 1672-3341
 558-1671		 1-557
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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