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The surname Rigsbee

A surname, carried by 1,143 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R210

Rigsbee: #22,503 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rigsbee #22,503, 1,143 people Rigsbee: #22,503 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rigsbee #22,503, 1,143 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rigsbee is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,143 people named Rigsbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 270,119 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,109.

#22,503
rank among US surnames
1,143
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.1%
change since 2000 (was #21,848)

Who is named Rigsbee

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

86% of people named Rigsbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 86%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 8.8%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rigsbee

Rigsbee has the Soundex code R210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R210.

Questions

How common is the surname Rigsbee?
1,143 people in the United States had the surname Rigsbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 270,119 Americans. It ranked 22,503rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rigsbee?
In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Rigsbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Rigsbee getting more or less common?
More common. 1,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,143 in 2010, up 3.1%.