Curran
Curran was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,908 among boys’ names; 1,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Curran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Curran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Curran?
#9,908 among boys’ names, 2025
Curran fell from #5,094 in 2015 to #9,908 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 4.1 per million.
56 babies in 1993, the peak
Curran peaked in 1993, when 56 boys were given it, #1,598 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,908 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,456 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,608 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,716 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,311 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,708 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,342 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,726 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,382 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,239 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,094 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,161 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,676 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,913 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,528 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,708 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,305 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,422 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,704 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,165 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,631 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,955 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,127 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,683 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,626 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,746 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,875 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,507 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,760 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,300 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,029 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,182 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,598 | 28.6 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,313 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,552 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 39 | #1,945 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,032 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,523 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,859 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,156 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,967 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,497 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,927 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,524 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,066 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,292 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,612 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,097 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,679 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,519 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,171 | 7.0 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,413 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,839 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,601 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,722 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,096 | 2.3 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,243 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Curran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,188 Americans recorded as Curran, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Curran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Curran, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,188 Americans ever recorded as Curran. The median Curran alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,218 people named Curran (134 women and girls, 1,084 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 91 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 408 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 467 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 167 |
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).
Where are babies named Curran born?
The states with the most babies named Curran are California, Texas and Oregon, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oregon is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Curran with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,902 babies since 1880, Curran is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 25 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
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 Curran
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 Curran and names like it
- Compare Curran and CurrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCurran peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Curran since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Curran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Curran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.