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Riggs: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 329 in 2025. Its best rank was #669 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #669 in 2024; #776 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Riggs in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#776 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #669.
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Riggs: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 329 boys in 2025. Peak: #669 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 410 (2024).
In 2025, 329 US boys were named Riggs, making it the 776th most common boys’ name of the year, down 107 places from #669 in 2024. That is 81 fewer than the 410 boys named Riggs in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #669, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 410. For comparison, it was #2,129 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riggs in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 6 babies. In all, 2,991 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,020 babies named Riggs.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,500 US boys were named Riggs; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 410. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riggs ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #135 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 10 | #135 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #222 | — |
| Arkansas | 12 | #301 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #324 | — |
| Utah | 13 | #369 | #469 |
| Idaho | 7 | #369 | — |
| Louisiana | 12 | #420 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #439 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #473 | — |
| Arizona | 15 | #483 | #865 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #495 | — |
| Missouri | 11 | #547 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #560 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #572 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #599 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #613 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #615 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #757 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #780 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #795 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #856 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #872 | #2,334 |
| Colorado | 5 | #935 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,095 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,196 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,218 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,332 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,795 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 329 | #776 |
| 2024 | — | — | 410 | #669 |
| 2023 | — | — | 359 | #733 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,265 | 374 | #705 |
| 2021 | — | — | 311 | #793 |
| 2020 | — | — | 232 | #949 |
| 2019 | — | — | 157 | #1,215 |
| 2018 | — | — | 141 | #1,298 |
| 2017 | — | — | 121 | #1,431 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,131 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,129 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,485 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,516 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,757 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,413 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,693 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,557 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,366 |
| 2007 | — | — | 16 | #5,628 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #5,025 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,598 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,068 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,488 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,500 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,609 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,047 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,299 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,266 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,579 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,786 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,628 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,581 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,245 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).