Kerrigan
Kerrigan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2012118 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 2,535people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,430 girls have been named Kerrigan in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 118 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 36%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 105 boys have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Kerrigan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Kerrigan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carriganpeak 1996
- Bayleepeak 1997
- Baileepeak 2000
- Kassidypeak 2000
- Karringtonpeak 2000
- Mikenziepeak 2011
- Ashtynpeak 2003
- Mckennapeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.