Riggs

32,857 people in the United States were counted with the surname Riggs in the 2020 census, making it the 1,053rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,097.

By the numbers

People: 32,857
Rank: 1,053rd
How common: 1 in 9,097
Per 100,000: 11.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.4%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Riggs

Chandler Riggs (born 1999)American actor
Bobby Riggs (1918–1995)American tennis player
Ransom Riggs (born 1979)American writer and filmmaker
Derek Riggs (born 1958)British artist
Elmer S. Riggs (1869–1963)American paleontologist

People named Riggs with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Riggs

Also a first name

Riggs has been given to 2,991 American babies as a first name since 1992, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

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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.