Kerrigan is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kerrigan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Kerrigan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kerrigan is #2,142 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kerrigan.
In fact, the name Kerrigan hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kerrigan wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1996, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,374, 111 parents chose it in 1996 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kerrigan, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kerrigan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kerrigan a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 3,718, for a total of 34 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kerrigan seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Kerrigan are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Kerrigan in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Kerrigan live in Indiana – here, one in 36,958 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 178,234 will turn around if you call her first name Kerrigan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Kerrigan is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kerrigan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kerrigan, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Goat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kerrigan
Kerrigan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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G
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
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R
R
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G
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kerrigan sounds like this:
