Riggins
Riggins was given to 91 boys in 2025, #1,776 among boys’ names; 989 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riggins by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riggins?
#1,776 among boys’ names, 2025
Riggins rose from #2,755 in 2015 to #1,776 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 53.3 per million.
128 babies in 2023, the peak
Riggins peaked in 2023, when 128 boys were given it, #1,427 among boys’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #1,776 | 53.3 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,681 | 58.0 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,427 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 86 | #1,860 | 49.3 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,780 | 51.4 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,162 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,125 | 37.9 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,377 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,307 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,469 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,755 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,514 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,639 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,815 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,473 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,199 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,753 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,161 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,049 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Riggins a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riggins has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 19 years of records.
Girls and boys named Riggins: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riggins, and how old are they?
An estimated 982 Americans named Riggins and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 429 people named Riggins (17 women and girls, 412 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Riggins
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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