Is Riggs a boy or girl name?

Riggs is a boy’s name. Of the 2,991 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 0.2% were girls and 99.8% were boys.

Riggs

Recorded 1992–2025 · United States

Riggs was most popular in 2024, when 410 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,349 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,586, with 329 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,991 people named Riggs.

Riggs over time

Births per year. The dot marks Riggs’s peak in 2024. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

Is Riggs a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Riggs is a boy’s name — 0.2% of the 2,991 Americans given it were girls and 99.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

Names that peaked alongside Riggs

Where Riggs is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org