Riggs

What Riggs means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Riggs yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #775 vs #3,256 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Riggs?

US: Rising: up from #2112 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 410 boys got the name (#669 that year). First in the US records in 1992.

How common

• About 1 in 5,192 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (2.98 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.59 per 1,000 boys), AR (0.95 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Riggs is #775 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Riggs were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Wriggs6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Riggs

Boys

• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Kairo#226Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 6 babies
• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*

For a sister

• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Aspen#266Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Aspen in 2025 were girls
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Lennon#214“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Riggs’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.