girls:
1.2k births since 1994
#4522 (21st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1996
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1994
#6534 (16th percentile)
The name Carrigan is the #6,534 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,206 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 15.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,522 (20.9% percentile) for all time with 1,196 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1996.
Carrigan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 1996 for boys).
The name Carrigan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carrigan reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #783) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 42 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carrigan ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carrigan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carrigan".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Carrigan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.7% confident that Carrigan is pronounced as KA-rih-guhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-rih-guhn, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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