Rigoberto

Where Rigoberto comes from

Rigoberto 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,347 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Rigoberto Cisneros born
    Mexican footballer
  3. 1982
    Peak, #561
    234 babies named Rigoberto — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1987
    Rigoberto Urán born
    road bicycle racer
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,427.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Rigoberto Urán · road bicycle racer, born 1987
  • Rigoberto Cisneros · Mexican footballer, born 1953
  • Rigoberto López Pérez · Nicaraguan poet, music composer and assassin of Anastasio Somoza García, 1929–1956
  • Rigoberto Rivas · Honduran association football player, born 1998
  • Rigoberto Padilla · Honduran footballer, born 1985

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.