girls:
2.4k births since 1972
#3537 (38th percentile)
boys:
105 births since 1993
#4481 (2nd percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1972
#5340 (31st percentile)
The name Kerrigan is the #5,340 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,498 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 31.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,537 (38.1% percentile) for all time with 2,393 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,481 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 1993.
Kerrigan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1993 for boys). Birth data for Kerrigan is available in 35 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (35 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kerrigan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kerrigan reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #824) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 61 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kerrigan ranks #907 for girls (4.2% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 42.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kerrigan reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #774) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kerrigan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kerrigan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.2% confident that Kerrigan is pronounced as KEH-rih-guhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-ee-guhn, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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