Riggins
Masculine · “descendant of Riagán”
Riggins is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 984 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Riggins is son of Rigan, and the Irish behind it is Ó Riagáin — the same family that gives Reagan, from a word about impulsiveness or little kings.
How old is the name Riggins?
Riggins first appears in US birth records in 2007 — 18 years ago. The typical Riggins is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Riggins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Riggins most popular?
Riggins peaked in 2023, reaching #1420 nationally. Today it ranks #1771, 351 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From riagán to Riggins
The story of Riggins
Ó Riagáin was anglicized as Reagan, Regan, Riggin and Riggins. The Riggins spelling entered American given-name use recently, helped by a character in a television series that ran from 2006. It appears in the American registers from that period and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
descendant of Riagán
From the Irish Ó Riagáin, built on riagán, read either as a diminutive of rí, 'king', or from a root meaning 'impulsive'. The s ending is an English patronymic addition. Neither reading of the root is settled, and the surname has several anglicizations.
How the name formed
- riagán
- Ó Riagáin
- Riggins
Related forms: Ó Riagáin · Riggin · Reagan
Pronouncing Riggins
RIG-inz
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said identically in every English accent.
Nicknames for Riggins
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2007
- Most boys named
- 2023128 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1420reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −9.0%91 in 2025, from 100
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Riggins in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Riagáin in Irish — related form
- Riggin in English — spelling variant
- Reagan in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Idaho, Utah.
Rigginss among us
people named Riggins are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,770 born in 2025 was named Riggins
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jaylyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Riggins's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jaylyn climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jaylyn's path sketches the road Riggins is walking now.
Riggins is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Riggins is headed
Riggins looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Riggins beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Riggins in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Irish family stands behind it.
- The little-king reading is strong where it holds.
- Two firm syllables that carry well against any surname.
- The root is genuinely disputed between two readings.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- One television character carries a strong association.
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Masculine · #1771 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Rigginss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Riggins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Riggins in 2025?
- Riggins ranks #1771 among US boy names in 2025, with 91 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Riggins?
- About 1 in every 18,770 US boys born in 2025 was named Riggins — 91 in all.
- Will my child share the name Riggins with classmates?
- Riggins will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Riggins
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