# Rigby (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rigby/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,458 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,388 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 47,808 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.0% (6,091 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rigby in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Rigby in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Rigby

- Emma Rigby, British actress
- Cathy Rigby, American actress, speaker, and former artistic gymnast (born 1952)
- Jane R. Rigby, American astrophysicist
- Elizabeth Eastlake, British art historian (1809-1893)

## Similar surnames

Rigsby, Rigsbee, Rizvi.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.