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I love the look and sound of Kerrigan. One of my favorite surname first names. It’s fairly unisex I’d say, and I would use it if I really wanted to.

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Kerrigan Joan
Kerrigan Audrey
Kerrigan Elsabeth
Kerrigan Luz
Kerrigan Sarah
Kerrigan Mary
Kerrigan Ciara
Kerrigan Luna
Kerrigan Soleil
Kerrigan Irisa
Kerrigan Penelope
Kerrigan Fay
Kerrigan Jolene
Kerrigan Delilah
Kerrigan Xenia

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Kerrigan Alexander
Kerrigan Lowell
Kerrigan Leo
Kerrigan Orpheus
Kerrigan Xavier
Kerrigan Richard
Kerrigan Joseph

I think of Nancy Kerrigan. Too surnamey even for the surname trend imo.

It seems like Kerry + Morgan / Morrigan.

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For a girl, I'd prefer Ceridwen, which I do like, and for a guy, I would prefer Morgan or Ciaran or Peregrine.

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The resemblance to Morrigan makes it seem dark imv particularly for a woman, and Kerry as masculine seems a little whiny to me or vibewise it's about like Casey, Kyle, Tyler, Taylor, all of which I dislike to various degrees. I guess I prefer it as a masculine name, though, and I might prefer it to Kerry.

This message was edited 12/12/2022, 2:13 PM

Very surnamey, pretty good for a boy, not very good for a girl but I have met a girl Kerrigan (surprisingly not called Kerri).
It's kind of fun to say in the sense that it's just a straight up consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel pattern. Same as Finnegan.

It would be a great villain name. There's something dastardly about it.

It reminds me of other Anglicized Irish surname-names that Americans like to use as trendy firstnames. So it works, although is not my style. It's better than about a third of them, and worse than another third of them, imo. Slightly more appealing than Sullivan, Rafferty, Keegan, and Murphy. About as good as Tiernan.
Kerry / Carey / Cary / Carrie make it seem flexible genderwise. But the -igan surname-ending makes it seem more masculine to me personally.
I think I would like it more if it did not sound so much like "care again."

This message was edited 12/12/2022, 12:27 AM

Harsh. Unpleasant. Unattractive Surname.

Don't like it at all

All I think of is Nancy Kerrigan. Way too surnamey and not an attractive one either.