Riggs
Riggs was given to 329 boys in 2025, #776 among boys’ names; 2,991 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,970 Americans named Riggs 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 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riggs by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riggs?
#776 among boys’ names, 2025
Riggs rose from #2,129 in 2015 to #776 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.19 per 1,000.
410 babies in 2024, the peak
Riggs peaked in 2024, when 410 boys were given it, #669 among boys’ names. The 329 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 329 | #776 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 410 | #669 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 359 | #733 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 374 | #705 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 311 | #793 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 232 | #949 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,215 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,298 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 121 | #1,431 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,131 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,129 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,514 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,412 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,692 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,363 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,625 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,021 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,593 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,062 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,493 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,294 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,238 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Riggs a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riggs has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Riggs: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riggs, and how old are they?
2,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,991 Americans ever recorded as Riggs. The median Riggs alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,007 people named Riggs (21 women and girls, 986 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,021 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 291 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,650 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Riggs born?
The states with the most babies named Riggs are Texas, Tennessee and Arizona, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee and Arizona are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #872 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 17 | #473 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 15 | #483 | 1.2× |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #324 | 1.7× |
| Utah | 13 | #369 | 4.1× |
| Louisiana | 12 | #420 | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 12 | #301 | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 11 | #547 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | #615 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #780 | 0.4× |
Where Riggs is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Riggs is most over-represented in Utah: since 1992 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Riggs with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Riggs
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.
More about Riggs and names like it
- Compare Riggs and JazielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRiggs peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riggs since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Riggs.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riggs alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.