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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 17,186 of them was named Kerrigan, which outranked 90.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,539Macayla103
- #1,539Mahogany103
- #1,539Rosanna103
- #1,551Kerrigan102
- #1,551Clarisa102
- #1,551Colby102
- #1,551Ileana102
- #1,565Aleena101
- #1,565Deisy101
- #1,565Izabella101
Tied with 13 names at #1,551; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 210,478 of them was named Kerrigan, which outranked 43.2% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,535Zedekiah10
- #5,535Ziaire10
- #5,535Zubin10
- #5,982Kerrigan9
- #5,982Aadil9
- #5,982Aarion9
- #5,982Abdias9
- #6,496Abdel8
- #6,496Abdulmalik8
- #6,496Abhiram8
Tied with 513 names at #5,982; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.