The Rigney surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,637 people carried this name — #7,203 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 63,700 people counted. That is up 3% from 4,521 in 2000.

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In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890

Ireland registered 9 births for the Rigney name in 1890.

Most were registered in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 400 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “King's.”

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born, 1890

Leinster 7
Munster 1
Ulster 1

Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.

In print

Rigney in American newspapers,
1889–1922.

Newspaper page from The Jamesburg Record carrying the name Rigney
The Jamesburg Record 1896-02-22
Newspaper page from The Laramie Republican carrying the name Rigney
The Laramie Republican 1922-09-20
Newspaper page from The Daily Times carrying the name Rigney
The Daily Times 1889-05-22

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 14,378 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Rigney in Australian newspapers,
1830s–1990s.

7,900 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rigney. The most, 1,212, date from the 1900s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Tasmania, at 2.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 3,666
Tasmania 1,408
Victoria 1,021
Queensland 844
South Australia 829
Western Australia 85
ACT (Canberra) 39
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rigney.

Who carried it

People named Rigney,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Hugh M. Rigney
    Hugh M. Rigney 1873–1950 · politician
  • Topper Rigney
    Topper Rigney 1897–1972 · baseball player
  • Topper Rigney
    Topper Rigney 1897–1972 · baseball player
  • Bill Rigney
    Bill Rigney 1918–2001 · baseball player
  • Ed Rigney 1893–1975 · rugby league player
  • Wal Rigney 1898–1965 · rugby union player

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Rigney,
in the records of 5 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States971 records

971 records of the Rigney name in the United States
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 339
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 215
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 174
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 97
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 87
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 47
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Stanley L. Rigney

    Born 1913 in New York. Enlisted 1942 at Albany; mechanic. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Gerald B.h. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Bridget Rigney

    Arrived at New York in 1891 aboard the Germanic from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 18; servant. From Kings Co, Ireland; bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Larry James Rigney

    Born 1950; from Greenwood, Indiana. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1970 in Cambodia.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)

Showing 3 of 971 records for Rigney in the United States.

Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).

Australia368 records

368 records of the Rigney name in Australia
  • Tasmanian Names Index 165
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 109
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 35
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 30
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 28
  • State Library of Western Australia indexes 1
  1. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record James Francis Rigney

    Died 1909 in Avoca, Tasmania. Will registered in Tasmania in 1909.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Florence Jane Rigney

    Born 1888 in Launceston, Tasmania. Married 1910 in Hobart, Tasmania, aged 21.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  3. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Timothy Rigney

    Transported to New South Wales aboard the Havering, arriving 1849; ticket of leave 1849.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)

Showing 3 of 368 records for Rigney in Australia.

Counts: Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain).

Canada5 records

5 records of the Rigney name in Canada
  • Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 3
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 2
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record John Henry Rigney

    Died 1944; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

    City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.
  2. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record James Rigney

    Married 1806 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Civil record James Rigney

    Listed at Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia in the census and tax rolls of 1792.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 5 records for Rigney in Canada.

Counts: City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. · Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

United Kingdom1 record

1 record of the Rigney name in the United Kingdom War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead
  1. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record O. Rigney

    York and Lancaster Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1919.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Rigney name in the Netherlands Dutch population registers
  1. A page of the 1910 United States census, Milwaukee
    Example: U.S. census, 1910
    Population register Louis Jean Rigney

    In the population register of Haarlem; born 1796 in Gend.

    Open Archives, Noord-Hollands Archief (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. census of 1910, Milwaukee (public domain).

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Surnames next to Rigney.

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