The RIGGINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,385	2892	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	1,438	3976	0.003	29
Change since 1880	+9947	+1084	+0.001	+13
Other Countries
Australia	8	101773	0	0
United Kingdom	44	26488	0	1

Top States for RIGGINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,110	1063	0.014	136
Texas	952	2652	0.005	46
Florida	756	2978	0.005	47
California	716	4465	0.002	21
North Carolina	639	2012	0.008	79
Top States for RIGGINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	621	1294	0.014	140
South Carolina	551	1336	0.014	137
Georgia	1,110	1063	0.014	136
Arkansas	298	1322	0.011	111
Tennessee	515	1836	0.009	91

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of RIGGINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RIGGINS 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 RIGGINS 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 RIGGINS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	227	1.99
White (Hispanic)	172	1.51
Native American/Alaskan	57	0.5
Asian/Pacific	30	0.26
White (Caucasian)	6,261	54.99
Black/African American	4,638	40.74

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

Similar names to RIGGINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIGGINS.

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.