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Carrigan

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Carrigan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
180.00% of girls
Peak year
199681 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1994
1,214people given the name
Babies named Carrigan, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,214 girls have been named Carrigan in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 81 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 37%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Carrigan
1990s251
2000s412
2010s445
2020s106

In 1996, its biggest year

Carrigan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.

Names that rose and fell with Carrigan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.