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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Riggs is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#346 · 1 in 1,317
- Kansas#551 · 1 in 3,009
- Louisiana#569 · 1 in 2,982
- Utah#670 · 1 in 4,065
- South Carolina#671 · 1 in 4,200
Best ever in a state: #90 in Montana, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #346 | 6 | 1 in 1,317 |
| Kansas | #551 | 5 | 1 in 3,009 |
| Louisiana | #569 | 8 | 1 in 2,982 |
| Utah | #670 | 5 | 1 in 4,065 |
| South Carolina | #671 | 5 | 1 in 4,200 |
| Washington | #958 | 5 | 1 in 7,111 |
| Texas | #1,218 | 14 | 1 in 12,583 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| California | #2,263 | 6 | 1 in 35,951 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,297 of them was named Riggs, which outranked 90.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).