Meaning not yet researched.
Kerrigan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,556 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,556 in 1996; #4,608 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Kerrigan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,608 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,556.
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Kerrigan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,556 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 118 (2012).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Kerrigan, making it the 4,608th most common girls’ name of the year, down 528 places from #4,080 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 36 girls named Kerrigan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,556, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 118, in 2012. For comparison, it was #2,021 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kerrigan, making it the 11,379th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #6,278, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 9, in 2014. For comparison, it was #13,114 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kerrigan in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 2,571 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 933 babies named Kerrigan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 527 US girls were named Kerrigan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kerigan and Keragan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kerigan (458), Keragan (18).
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 Kerrigan 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 | 30 | #4,608 | 6 | #11,379 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,253 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,118 | 5 | #13,153 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,551 | 8 | #9,343 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,351 | 7 | #10,238 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,730 | 7 | #10,268 |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,375 | 6 | #11,494 |
| 2015 | 98 | #2,021 | 5 | #13,114 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,932 | 9 | #8,488 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,820 | 7 | #10,235 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,299 | 6 | #10,715 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,052 | 6 | #10,278 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,701 | 5 | #11,663 |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,738 | 5 | #11,362 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,753 | 6 | #8,748 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,556 | 9 | #6,278 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,182 | 7 | #7,416 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,134 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,067 | 7 | #7,228 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,949 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,789 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,934 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,869 | — | — |
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).