Carrigan
Carrigan was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,590 among girls’ names; 1,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Carrigan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carrigan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carrigan?
#5,590 among girls’ names, 2025
Carrigan fell from #4,005 in 2015 to #5,590 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.7 to 13.7 per million.
86 babies in 1996, the peak
Carrigan peaked in 1996, when 86 babies were given it (81 girls, #1,808 among girls’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,590 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,448 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,139 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,041 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,424 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,939 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,938 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,166 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,314 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,010 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,005 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,191 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,843 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,375 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,459 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,815 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,374 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,792 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,661 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,277 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,129 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,342 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,811 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,285 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,640 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,862 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,382 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,400 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,829 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,808 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,892 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,777 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carrigan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carrigan has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carrigan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carrigan, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,246 Americans ever recorded as Carrigan. The median Carrigan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,116 people named Carrigan (1,060 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,118 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 116 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 703 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 414 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,217 babies since 1880, Carrigan is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carrigan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carrigan and names like it
- Compare Carrigan and KarriganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarrigan peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carrigan since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Carrigan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carrigan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.