Riggs

Where Riggs comes from

Riggs hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1898
    Riggs Stephenson born
    American baseball player
  2. 1992
    First appearance
    #7,422 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1994
    Riggs Lennon born
    American soccer player
  4. 2024
    Peak, #669
    410 babies named Riggs — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Riggs Stephenson · American baseball player, 1898–1985
  • Riggs Lennon · American soccer player, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.