Kerigan
#14,073 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kerigan has been given to 458 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #14,073 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Kerigan, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kerigan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kerigan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,073
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kerigan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerigan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kerigans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerigan was born before 2002 — so the typical Kerigan is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 458
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (239).
Is Kerigan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,654
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.2%
- Peak was 1996 (37)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kerigan
Kerigan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 29.7% against Kerigan's 3.6%.
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 Kerigan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kerigan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,358,330 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Kerigan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kerigan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kerigan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kerigan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.