Kennedy Family History
- Kennedy Name Meaning
- Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,035,916 Historical Documents with Kennedy on Ancestry
- 2,077,479 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,456,181 Census and Voter Lists
- 300,195 Military Records
- 249,378 Immigration Records
- 3,952,683 Member Trees
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Number of Kennedy families
 1,672 - 3,341  558 - 1,671 |
 1 - 557  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kennedy families
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1,304 - 2,605 435 - 1,303 |
1 - 434 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kennedy families
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1,512 - 3,021 505 - 1,511 |
1 - 504 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kennedy census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kennedy census records
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- All Kennedy
- 4,911
- Confederate
- 1,768
- Union
- 3,143
from the Civil War Service Records
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