Rigoberto
Rigoberto was given to 74 boys in 2025, #2,034 among boys’ names; 11,421 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,700 Americans named Rigoberto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rigoberto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rigoberto mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Rigoberto is “a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Rigobert” Its etymology gives the senses “mighty, powerful” (*rīkijaz) and “bright, shining” (*berhtaz).
Of Germanic origin, from *rīkijaz (“mighty, powerful”) + *berhtaz (“bright, shining”).
/riɡoˈbeɾto/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rigoberto?
#2,034 among boys’ names, 2025
Rigoberto fell from #1,521 in 2015 to #2,034 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.9 to 43.3 per million.
302 babies in 1992, the peak
Rigoberto peaked in 1992, when 302 babies were given it (295 boys, #598 among boys’ names). The 74 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,034 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,090 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,309 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,946 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 77 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,845 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 83 | #1,837 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,076 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,619 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,521 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 136 | #1,305 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,431 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 161 | #1,130 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,154 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 225 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 245 | #869 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 238 | #872 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 262 | #791 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 273 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 288 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 272 | #699 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 264 | #690 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 297 | #633 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 262 | #680 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 256 | #665 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 270 | #650 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 251 | #656 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 256 | #653 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 279 | #617 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 280 | #624 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 288 | #613 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 295 | #598 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 262 | #626 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 251 | #638 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 255 | #618 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 206 | #657 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 210 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 217 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 243 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 177 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 210 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 234 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 216 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 211 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 160 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 174 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 149 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 151 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 145 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 98 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 98 | #800 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 89 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 86 | #881 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 90 | #853 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 65 | #957 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 67 | #882 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,126 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,159 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,012 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,000 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,106 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,146 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,112 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,276 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,471 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,294 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 29 | #1,475 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,837 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,181 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,453 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,121 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,528 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,603 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,771 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,934 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,923 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,876 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,100 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,834 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rigoberto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rigoberto has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rigoberto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rigoberto, and how old are they?
10,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 11,421 Americans ever recorded as Rigoberto. The median Rigoberto alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 26,883 people named Rigoberto (49 women and girls, 26,834 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 438 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Rigoberto born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,034 | 2.6× |
| California | 19 | #1,112 | 3.3× |
Where Rigoberto is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rigoberto is most over-represented in California: since 1924 it was given 3.3 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 Rigoberto 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 Rigoberto
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 Rigoberto and names like it
- Compare Rigoberto and JorgeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rigoberto since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Rigoberto.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rigoberto alive today were born 1997-2012.
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