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Rigo vs Rigoberto

American parents have registered 11,421 Rigobertos since 1880, against 1,830 Rigos. Rigoberto is still ahead, with 74 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rigo 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 2018, when Rigo had 46 and Rigoberto had 69.

Side by side

  Rigo Rigoberto
Total US births 1,83011,421
Most in one year 64302
Babies in 2025 2874
Estimated living today 1,80011,000
Median age today 2230
Peak year 20072001
Best rank 2,117th boys633rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,848th2,020th
First recorded 19561924
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8307 / 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 Rigos are over 22. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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