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The RIGGANS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 269 68360 0 1
United States (1880 census) 91 33477 0 2
Change since 1880 +178 -34883 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 5 149019 0 0
United Kingdom 133 20851 0 3
Top States for RIGGANS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 71 21913 0.001 6
North Carolina 34 15934 0.000 4
Texas 32 39567 0.000 2
Ohio 30 40852 0.000 3
Alabama 13 19842 0.000 3
Top States for RIGGANS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 8 8167 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 71 21913 0.001 6
North Carolina 34 15934 0.000 4
Delaware 3 47280 0.000 4
Alabama 13 19842 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of RIGGANS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RIGGANS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RIGGANS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RIGGANS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 148 55.02
Black/African American 119 44.24
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

Meaning of RIGGANS in historical publications

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

Similar names to RIGGANS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIGGANS.

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 RIGGANS

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