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Corgan

Gender
Boy
Say it
KOR-gan
Origin
Irish

Corgan is a boys' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Corgan come from?

Irish: Irish surname of uncertain meaning

Is Corgan a girl's or a boy's name?

Corgan is a boys' name.

How popular is Corgan in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the boys named Corgan in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 15 in 20072011
Corgan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20119#8,072
201013#6,353
20090–
20087#9,864
200715#5,658
20069#7,992
200511#6,628
20049#7,530
20036#9,574
200210#6,515
20018#7,529
20007#8,202
19999#6,524
19987#7,553
199711#5,282

Names like Corgan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Corgan

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Corgan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/corgan, updated 20 October 2026.