Kerrigan
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 95.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 102 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,460since 1972
Kerrigan over time
Rank among girls' names. Kerrigan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #2,538 | 69 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #2,366 | 79 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #2,012 | 98 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #1,814 | 112 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,043 | 95 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,149 | 90 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,695 | 108 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #1,620 | 113 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,730 | 101 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,675 | 95 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,749 | 87 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #1,551 | 102 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
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| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kerrigan! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kerrigan
- 507 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #4,546)
- 1,455 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #4,546)
- 2,534 spots since 2015 (#2,012 → #4,546)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1996 at #1,551 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,924 girls born in 2012 were named Kerrigan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,551 in 1996, was only 1 in 17,186 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.9% of all girls named Kerrigan (884) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,292 |
| 1980s | 6 | #9,307 (1985) | #9,307 |
| 1990s | 444 | #1,551 (1996) | #4,922 |
| 2000s | 883 | #1,620 (2001) | #2,127 |
| 2010s | 884 | #1,744 (2012) | #2,213 |
| 2020s | 238 | #3,091 (2020) | #3,828 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kerrigan in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 304,249 of them was named Kerrigan, which outranked 14.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,374 names at #8,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.