Meaning not yet researched.
Carrigan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,810 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,810 in 1996; #5,591 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carrigan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,591 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,810.
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Carrigan: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,810 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 81 (1996).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Carrigan, making it the 5,591st most common girls’ name of the year, up 860 places from #6,451 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 18 girls named Carrigan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,810, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #4,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carrigan in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 1,246 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 445 babies named Carrigan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 269 US girls were named Carrigan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Karrigan, Karigan and Carigan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karrigan (511), Karigan (320), Carigan (86), Caragan (54), Carragan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carrigan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,451 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,144 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,046 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,010 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,006 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,278 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,832 | 5 | #9,479 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,810 | 5 | #9,209 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,897 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,783 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).