Given name & surname
Curran
“one who wields a dagger; a hero”
Curran is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who wields a dagger; a hero.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who wields a dagger; a hero.”
How it developed
From Irish Ó Corraidhín (“descendant of Corraidhín”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Curran through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,188
- 1,158 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 56 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,912 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −22%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,912 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 21.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 56 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,218 as a first name in 2020; 23,943 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Curran’s family of names
Curran has a related form in Curry. Curran has a related form in Currie. Curran has a related form in Currea.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Curryvariant
- Corrinvariant · English
- Corranvariant · English
- Currievariant
- Curramsvariant · English
- Curreavariant
- Curreevariant
- Currivariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Curran
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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