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The RIGGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,406 18230 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 275 15263 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1131 -2967 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 18 28948 0 0
Top States for RIGGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 286 3450 0.004 36
Arkansas 141 2419 0.005 53
Texas 119 13255 0.001 6
Tennessee 109 5536 0.002 19
Virginia 98 7177 0.001 14
Top States for RIGGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 141 2419 0.005 53
North Carolina 286 3450 0.004 36
Iowa 74 5881 0.003 25
Tennessee 109 5536 0.002 19
Alaska 12 8161 0.002 19

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RIGGAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RIGGAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RIGGAN in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RIGGAN by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RIGGAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the RIGGAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of RIGGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 31 2.2
White (Hispanic) 18 1.28
Mixed Race 15 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.64
Asian/Pacific 8 0.57
White (Caucasian) 1,325 94.24

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RIGGAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

RIGGAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of RIGGAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RIGGAN.

Similar names to RIGGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIGGAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RIGGAN

The following words are slight variants of RIGGAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.