Higgins

Boys' name

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Hick

Higgins has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2024. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Higgins, 2024

1 in 557,000

Higgins over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Higgins: meaning, origin, and history

King, ruler + hard, brave, through Hick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Higgins means

Higgins belongs to the name family reached through Higgins → Hick → Richard. Its meaning is “king, ruler + hard, brave”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A Middle English patronymic surname derived from a diminutive of Hick (Richard).

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Origin, language, and formation

Higgins is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hick and Richard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Higgins is pronounced /ˈhɪɡɪnz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Higgins between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,437 in 2024.

How common is Higgins?

Higgins had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Higgins sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Higgins. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Higginss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Higgins was born before 2024 — so the typical Higgins is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Higgins rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,437; 2024

Spellings of Higgins

Higgins is not the most common spelling — Riggins is, with 57.1% against Higgins's 0.35%.

Riggins57.1%984
Riggin42.5%733
Higgins0.35%6

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Higgins by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,437; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 6 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Higgins

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Highland Robbins Dawkins Martins Kervins Kollins Nevins Elkins Watkins Robins Hutchins Marvins Rawlins Kevins Evins Perkins Gains Rollins Higinio Jenkins Hawkins Riggins Wilkins Collins

Sibling names for Higgins

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Noah Alianna Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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