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Riggs

#776 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Riggs has been given to 2,991 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #776 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 410 recorded.

Babies named Riggs, 2025

1 in 10,100

Riggs over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riggs: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Riggs means

Riggs is a given name.

The naming story behind Riggs

Wikidata records Riggs as a given name. The entity identifier is Q97751195, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,986 boys were recorded with the name Riggs between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 410 in 2024; its best national rank was #669 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #949 in 2020 to #776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,129 in 2015 to #776 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Riggs between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #17,260 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Riggs?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,100
329 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,190
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#776
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riggs 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 2025 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,986 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riggs. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riggss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riggs was born before 2021 — so the typical Riggs is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
67.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,986
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 67.5% of all recorded uses (2,015).

Is Riggs 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
−107
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+173
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,353
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.98×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.2%
Peak was 2024 (410)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#669
2024

Spellings of Riggs

Riggs is not the most common spelling — Briggs is, with 29.1% against Riggs's 9.3%.

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.

Where Riggs is used

Across 2016–2025, Riggs was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 962 boys, against 1 in 6,537 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1104 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 962
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 1,010
  3. 3Utah1 in 1,250
  4. 4Idaho1 in 1,449
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 1,639
  6. 6Iowa1 in 1,923
  7. 7Montana1 in 1,961
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 2,174

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.

Geographically, Riggs is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 94% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Riggs around the world

Where Riggs 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #720
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Riggs

People whose public names include Riggs, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Riggs by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 173
Best rank ever
#669
2024
Peak year
2024
410 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,986
Count in 2025
329

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,260
2022
Peak year
2022
5 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Riggs

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

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Names with a curve like Riggs

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Riggs, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Riggs

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

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