Karigan
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Karigan by the numbers
Karigan was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 28 babies in 1996, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Karigan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Karigan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Karigan
Names that are said the same way as Karigan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Carriganlittle spear or red; from Ó Carragáin33 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Karigan
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