Caragan — girls' name
54 babies named Caragan in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Caragan was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Caragan in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Caragan
The Social Security Administration has registered 54 babies named Caragan between 1996 and 2014, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caragan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Caragan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Caragan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Caragan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 54 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Caragan at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Caragan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1996
- Peak year (2001)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
54 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 10 births in a single year.
Caragan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 20 births that decade — 37% of Caragan's all-time total
Caragan decade highlights
- Peak decade 20 births
- Runner-up 20 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Caragan's strongest decade
20 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.