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Rigby vs Rigoberto

American parents have registered 11,421 Rigobertos since 1880, against 516 Rigbys. Rigoberto is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rigby against Rigoberto, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rigby Rigoberto

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rigoberto has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Rigby had 39 and Rigoberto had 80.

Side by side

  Rigby Rigoberto
Total US births 51611,421
Most in one year 41302
Babies in 2025 3674
Estimated living today 51011,000
Median age today 830
Peak year 20152001
Best rank 3,431st boys633rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,757th2,020th
First recorded 19991924
Girls / boys 113 / 4037 / 11,414

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rigobertos alive today are over 30; half the Rigbys are over 8. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rigby and Rigoberto.