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Rigby vs Riggin

American parents have registered 738 Riggins since 1880, against 516 Rigbys. Riggin is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rigby against Riggin, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rigby Riggin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 29 years in which either name was published, Riggin for 24 years and Rigby for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Rigby Riggin
Total US births 516738
Most in one year 4163
Babies in 2025 3642
Estimated living today 510730
Median age today 88
Peak year 20152023
Best rank 3,431st boys2,244th boys
Rank in 2025 3,757th2,941st
First recorded 19991993
Girls / boys 113 / 4035 / 733

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rigby and Riggin.