Riggins
#1,776 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riggins has been given to 989 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #1,776 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 128 recorded.
Babies named Riggins, 2025
1 in 36,400
Riggins over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Riggins?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,400
- 91 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 18,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,776
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,253 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riggins sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riggins. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rigginss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riggins was born before 2021 — so the typical Riggins is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 56.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 984
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (560).
Is Riggins 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
- −95
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +386
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +979
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.1%
- Peak was 2023 (128)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Riggins
Riggins is not the most common spelling — Riggs is, with 63.5% against Riggins's 20.9%.
Where Riggins is used
Across 2016–2025, Riggins was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 1,408 boys, against 1 in 25,576 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Idaho1 in 1,408
- 2Utah1 in 4,348
- 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 4Nebraska1 in 16,667
- 5Alabama1 in 20,000
- 6Kansas1 in 20,000
- 7South Carolina1 in 20,000
- 8Mississippi1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Riggins around the world
Where Riggins ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2017–2017#2,308in 2017
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Riggins by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Riggins
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riggins
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.