Last name: KENNEDY
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Last name frequency
KENNEDY : This last name is indexed 679,972 times on Geneanet!Origin 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 Canaday Cannady Cannedy Kannady and Kenedy.
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