How Many People Are Named Riggs?

2,970

people named Riggs are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 115,079 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,991 babies named Riggs in Social Security records from 1992 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,195

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,943

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Peak Year

2024

410 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.2%
Male
99.8%

Almost all of the babies given the name Riggs (99.8%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Riggs alive today is about 5 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 7 in 2025.

Under 30 2,952
99.4%
30 to 59 18
0.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Riggs first appears in the records in 1992 and was given most often in 2024, to 410 babies. In 2025, 329 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1992 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Riggs has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #669, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #776.

Boys
Rank in 2025#776
Best rank#669 (2024)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#752 in the 2020s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Riggs alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Riggs were born in Texas than in any other state: about 258 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Riggs was given 6.6 times as often in Utah, 4.8 times in Idaho and 4.4 times in Nebraska.

Texas 258
Utah 177
Arizona 87
Tennessee 78
Ohio 77
Louisiana 75
Iowa 74
Alabama 72
Missouri 69
California 69
Minnesota 68
Oklahoma 67
Indiana 67
Kansas 61
Arkansas 60
Georgia 60
Nebraska 55
Idaho 55
South Carolina 52
North Carolina 51
Florida 50
Illinois 50
Colorado 47
Wisconsin 45
Pennsylvania 44
South Dakota 39
North Dakota 36
Washington 35
Kentucky 31
Michigan 26
Virginia 19
Montana 18
Mississippi 17
Maryland 13
Oregon 6
New Jersey 5

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