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Kerigan

Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Kerigan is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Kerigan mean?

Irish: spelling of Kerrigan

A female given name from Irish.

Meaning borrowed from Kerrigan. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Kerigan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kerigan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kerigan, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1996, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

2025 had more girls named Kerigan than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Kerigan in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 37 in 19962025
Kerigan in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20189#10,540
20170–
20166#14,326
20158#11,830
201411#9,512
20137#13,145
201212#9,105
201115#7,779
20109#11,240
200912#9,375
200818#7,069
200721#6,319
200623#5,708
200516#7,133
200425#5,058
200327#4,663
200231#4,067
200135#3,699
200031#3,978
199925#4,440
199826#4,235
199730#3,713
199637#3,144
199511#7,509
19947#10,563

Names like Kerigan

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

Names related to Kerigan

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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, “Kerigan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kerigan, updated 20 October 2026.