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Riggs

About 2,991 American babies have been named Riggs since 1992, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 775th. About 3,000 Riggses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Riggs boys named Riggs

By the numbers

Total US births
2,991
Estimated living today
3,000
Median age today
4
Peak year
2024
Best rank
669th
Rank in 2025
775th
First recorded
1992
Girls / boys
5 / 2,986

How old the living Riggses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,991 babies given the name since 1992, about 3,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Riggs is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Riggs is most concentrated in Utah (10.1×), Idaho (6.5×), South Dakota (5.4×), North Dakota (5.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Riggs peaked:

All the names of 2024

Riggs elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Riggs 26 3,256th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Riggs against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.