Kenny
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Kenny is a surname, a given name, and a diminutive of several different given names.
In Ireland, the surname is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ó Cionnaith, sometimes spelled Ó Cionnaoith. It is also a name from Waterford Cork which derives from MacKenny.
One bearer of the name was Cainnech of Aghaboe, better known in English as Saint Canice - a sixth-century Irish priest and missionary, after whom the city and county of Kilkenny is also named. The Irish form Cill Chainnigh means "church of Canice".
It is thought that the Ó Cionnaith sept was part of the Uí Maine kingdom, based in Connaught. Within this area, the name is associated traditionally with counties Galway and Roscommon.
Kenny is ranked at number 76 in the list of the most common surnames in Ireland.[1] Other spellings include O'Kenny, Kenney, Kennie, Kinnie and Kinny.
Kenny is most often used as a diminutive form of Kenneth and Ken but it is also used as a given name.
People named Kenny
Given name
See also: Kenneth and Ken (given name)
- Cainnech of Aghaboe (Saint Kenny), also known as Saint Canice or Saint Kenneth
- Kenny Anderson, basketball player
- Kenny Bernstein, NHRA driver
- Kenny Booker, American basketball player
- Kenny Bräck, former IndyCar driver
- Kenny Chesney, American singer
- Kenny Clarke, jazz drummer
- Kenny Dalglish, Scottish soccer player and manager
- Kenny Delmar, actor and voice artist
- Kenny Dykstra, American professional wrestler
- Kenny Easterday, "Man with half a body"
- Kenny Edwards (rugby league), New Zealand Rugby League player
- Kenny Everett, disc-jockey and comedian
- Kenny G, smooth jazz saxophonist
- Kenny Håkansson, Swedish musician
- Kenny Hotz, Canadian filmmaker and star of Kenny vs. Spenny
- Kenny Hughes, actor, dancer, director and writer
- Kenny Irwin, Jr., former NASCAR driver
- Kenny Jackett English football player and manager
- Kenny Layne, professional wrestler
- Kenny Liu, member of Mandopop boy band Top Combine
- Kenny Lofton, baseball outfielder
- Kenny Loggins, American singer and songwriter
- Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
- Kenny McCormick, fictional character in South Park
- Kenny Miller, Derby county footballer playing upfront
- Kenny Okoro, American football player
- Kenny Omega, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler Tyson Smith
- Kenny Ortega, film director
- Kenny Perry, American professional golfer
- Kenny Roberts, former motorcycle racer
- Kenny Rogers, American country music singer
- Kenny Stucker, American football player
- Kenny Vaccaro, American football safety
- Kenny Wallace, NASCAR driver
Surname
- Anthony Kenny, English philosopher
- Enda Kenny, Irish politician
- Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer
- Brian Kenny (disambiguation)
- Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse
- Gerard Kenny, British-based American composer, pianist and singer
- J. E. Kenny, Irish politician
- James Kenny (photographer), British photographer
- Jason Kenny, English cyclist
- Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor
- Lawrence Kenny, Catholic priest and exorcist
- Mark Kenny, former Irish footballer
- Matthew Joseph Kenny, Irish politician from Clare
- Mick Kenny (Kilkenny hurler), Irish hurler
- Nick Kenny (poet)
- Nick Kenny (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
- Paddy Kenny, British-born Irish footballer
- Paddy Kenny (hurler), Irish hurler
- Pat Kenny, Irish broadcaster
- Seán Kenny (hurler), Irish hurler
- Shaun Kenny-Dowall, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Stephen Kenny (footballer), Irish football manager
- Tom Kenny, American voice actor
- Tom Kenny (hurler), Irish hurler
- Thomas Kelly-Kenny General in the Boer war
- William Kenny, Irish Unionist MP and Privy Councillor
Fictional characters
- Kenny (Beyblade), a character in the anime and manga series Beyblade
- Kenny (Tomorrow People), a character in the 1970s science fiction series The Tomorrow People
- Kenny McCormick, a character in the animated series South Park
- Kenny Powers (character), the protagonist of the HBO series Eastbound and Down
- Kenny Smyth, a corporate bathroom plumber in the 2006 film Kenny
- Kenny Wangler, an African American drug addict in the HBO drama Oz'
- Kenpachi Zaraki, a character in the anime and manga series Bleach
- Kenny, a character in the movie Let Me In
- Kenny, a character in the episodic video game series The Walking Dead: Season One
- Kenny Ackerman, a character from Attack on Titan
- Kenny the Shark, a character from Kenny the Shark
- Kenny (Kouji), a character from Stitch!.
See also
References
- ↑ "GulliverIreland.com". goireland.com.
- goireland.com
- freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
- Genealogies of Kenny and Lysaght by Cecil Stacpoole Kenny 1915, NLI, Dublin, Ireland
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