girls:
101 births since 2011
#5615 (2nd percentile)
boys:
353 births since 1999
#4233 (8th percentile)
overall:
454 births since 1999
#7285 (6th percentile)
The name Rigby is the #7,285 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 454 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,233 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 353 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,615 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 101 births since 2011.
Rigby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Rigby is available in 18 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 12 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rigby has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rigby were boys.
For boys, Rigby reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #878) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rigby ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 69.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rigby reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #938) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rigby".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rigby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Rigby is pronounced as RIHG-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is REEG-bee, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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