Riggins

At the 2020 census, 11,513 Americans bore the surname Riggins — 3,046th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,513
Rank: 3,046th
How common: 1 in 26,000
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

but possibly a variant of Higgins.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Riggins described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 49.6%
Black, not Hispanic 41.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Riggins

Also a first name

Riggins has been given to 989 American babies as a first name since 2007, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.