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Curran

#9,908 in 2025Boys' name

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Curran has been given to 1,188 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #9,908 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Curran, 2025

1 in 474,000

Curran over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Curran: meaning, origin, and history

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Irish surname transfer

What Curran means

Curran is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Curran is used in English (Rare).

The naming story behind Curran

Curran is a given name adopted from Irish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,158 boys were recorded with the name Curran between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,598 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,708 in 2020 to #9,908 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,094 in 2015 to #9,908 in 2025.

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Curran between 1978 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,771 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Curran?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,908
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Curran sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Curran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Currans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Curran was born before 1998 — so the typical Curran is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,151
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Choose a decade

1990s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Curran 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
−1,452
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,200
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,814
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1993 (56)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,598
1993

Spellings of Curran

Curran is not the most common spelling — Murray is, with 49.8% against Curran's 2.6%.

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 Curran is used

Across 1910–2025, Curran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 331,924 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Oregon1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Curran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Curran around the world

Where Curran 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 & Wales
    1996–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1992–2005
    #2,303
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Curran by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,908
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,200
Best rank ever
#1,598
1993
Peak year
1993
56 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,158
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,771
1978
Peak year
2000
9 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Curran

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Curran

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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