Tour Scotland photograph of the John Henry Kennedy gravestone in the cemetery in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland. Died at Lochlan, June 1845, aged 50. There have been several different etymologies given for the surname Kennedy. One is that the name is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Ó Ceannéidigh meaning " grandson of Ceannéidigh ". Ceannéidigh is a given name derived from the Gaelic words ceann, meaning " head ", and éidigh, meaning " ugly ". In some etymologies, the element ceann is given as " chief " or " leader ". Another possibility is that Kennedy is an Anglicisation of Ó Cinnéide, meaning " grandson of Cinnédidh " or " grandson of Cinnéidigh ", with both of these personal names meaning " helmet headed. ” Ceanéidigh could be related to the old Gaelic name Cennétig, which is known from Cennétig Mac Lorcáin, the father of the Irish high king Brian mac Cennétig, who himself was also known as Brian Bóruma or Brian Boru. There are also an Irish Kennedy family and a Scottish Kennedy clan of Carrick in North Ayrshire, which are unrelated to one another.
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