Kerrigan

5,346 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kerrigan in the 2020 census, making it the 6,144th most common in the country. That is about one person in 55,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,346
Rank: 6,144th
How common: 1 in 55,900
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ciaragáin (“grandson/descendant of Ciaragán”), a byname from a double diminutive of ciar (“black”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kerrigan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kerrigan

Nancy Kerrigan (born 1969)American figure skater
J. Warren Kerrigan (1879–1947)American actor and director

People named Kerrigan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kerrigan

Also a first name

Kerrigan has been given to 2,571 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.