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

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Peak · girls
1996 · 102 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,460
since 1972

Kerrigan over time

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Rank among girls' names. Kerrigan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #1,551, 1996girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,54630#10,6956
2024#4,03936
2023#3,47645
2022#4,20234
2021#3,61442
2020#3,09151#12,0225
2019#2,53869#8,8898
2018#2,33478#9,6707
2017#2,71363#9,6967
2016#2,36679#10,7446
2015#2,01298#12,0865
2014#1,922104#8,1309
2013#1,814112#9,6557
2012#1,744118
2011#2,04395
2010#2,64268
2009#2,28685
2008#2,63070
2007#2,64769
2006#2,14990
2005#2,18084
2004#2,28676#9,9486
2003#2,04887#9,5816
2002#1,695108#10,6675
2001#1,620113
2000#1,730101#10,3495
1999#1,91482
1998#1,67595
1997#1,74987#8,1106
1996#1,551102#5,9829
1995#3,15236#6,9927
1994#5,01619
1993#9,5598#6,8167
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First appearance
1972

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1972
  • Peaked 1996 at #1,551 (102 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,924
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 35.9% of all girls named Kerrigan (884) were born in this decade
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#8,292 (1972)#8,292
1980s6#9,307 (1985)#9,307
1990s444#1,551 (1996)#4,922
2000s883#1,620 (2001)#2,127
2010s884#1,744 (2012)#2,213
2020s238#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 2001

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#1,620
113 births · 1 in 15,935 girls

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #1,620Kerrigan113
More about 2001

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1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 15,935 of them was named Kerrigan, which outranked 91.0% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kerrigan
  1. #1,611Sherry114
  2. #1,611Siera114
  3. #1,611Yesica114
  4. #1,620Kerrigan113
  5. #1,620Adina113
  6. #1,620Divya113
  7. #1,620Jennah113
  8. #1,627Anastacia112
  9. #1,627Ashlin112
  10. #1,627Candy112

Tied with 6 names at #1,620; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001