Kerrigan

Where Kerrigan comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ciaragáin (“grandson/descendant of Ciaragán”), a byname from a double diminutive of ciar (“black”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kerrigan
  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Peak, #1,551
    102 babies named Kerrigan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,091.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.