Riggs
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #775 for boys in 2025, 329 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 410 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,986since 1992
Riggs over time
Rank among boys' names. Riggs has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #775 | 329 | |
| 2024 | — | #669 | 410 | |
| 2023 | — | #733 | 359 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #705 | 374 |
| 2021 | — | #791 | 311 | |
| 2020 | — | #946 | 232 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,214 | 157 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,294 | 141 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,429 | 121 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,110 | 66 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,112 | 66 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,461 | 51 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,492 | 49 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,716 | 44 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,364 | 32 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,633 | 29 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,267 | 23 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,434 | 16 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,464 | 19 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Riggs! It came in at #7,422, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Riggs
- 106 spots since 2024 (#669 → #775)
- 171 spots since 2020 (#946 → #775)
- 1,337 spots since 2015 (#2,112 → #775)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2020 (#1,214 → #946)
- Biggest drop: 106 spots in 2025 (#669 → #775)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2024 at #669 (410 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,202 boys born in 2024 were named Riggs (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,192 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 67.5% of all boys named Riggs (2,015) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 60 | #4,162 (1999) | #6,738 |
| 2000s | 155 | #4,267 (2008) | #5,440 |
| 2010s | 756 | #1,214 (2019) | #2,283 |
| 2020s | 2,015 | #669 (2024) | #770 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Riggs in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 328,026 of them was named Riggs, which outranked 13.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,454 names at #15,306; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 4,668 of them was named Riggs, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).