Carrigan
#5,590 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carrigan has been given to 1,246 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #5,590 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Carrigan, 2025
1 in 151,000
Carrigan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carrigan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 151,000
- 22 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 73,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,590
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 104,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carrigan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carrigan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carrigans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carrigan was born before 2009 — so the typical Carrigan is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,236
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (445).
Is Carrigan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +858
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,651
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,585
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.59×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.2%
- Peak was 1996 (81)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.3% average annual change
Spellings of Carrigan
Carrigan is not the most common spelling — Kerrigan is, with 32.7% against Carrigan's 16.4%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Carrigan is used
Across 1910–2025, Carrigan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 380,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7South Carolina1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carrigan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carrigan around the world
Where Carrigan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
- Scotland1999–1999#621in 1999
- Canada1996–2000#2,489in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Carrigan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Carrigan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carrigan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.