Girl name origins & meanings
- Irish, Scottish : Chief with helmet
Girl name variations
Boy name origins & meanings
- Gaelic : Helmeted chief
Family name origins & meanings
- Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.
- Kennedy ancestral lands are found both in Ireland and in Scotland, where the family’s medieval ancestral seat is sited on the Ayrshire coast, facing the Irish Sea.