Girls' name · since 1997
Caragh
Caragh has 83 recorded births since 1997 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2007 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,203 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,742 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 83
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
83 babies have been named Caragh since 1997, making it today's #15742 girls' name.
Caragh has 83 recorded births among girls since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15742 as of the latest data, more common than 9% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2025.
- #29,203 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,742 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 83 born since 1997
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Caragh ranks #29,203 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,742 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 83 born since 1997, peaking in the 2000s.
- #29,203 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,742 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 83
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Caragh's 83 recorded births place it above 59.49% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Caragh compares
83 22nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Caragh's all-time total is 78% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Caragh | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 83 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Caragh's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Caragh's SSA record in two at 2008 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2002, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2007 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Caragh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2025
- Peak year (2007)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Caragh by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (47 births, 57% of the file).
2000s was Caragh's strongest decade.
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Caragh births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
- 2000s
2000s
47 births
- 2010s
2010s
19 births
- 2020s 11
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 47 births (57% of all-time use).
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- Caragh's decade-level peak was the 2000s (47 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Caragh: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2007)
Similar record span (~28 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Caragh draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.