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The Rigo surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 781 people carried this name — #30,043 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 384,600 people counted. That is down 4% from 811 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Rigo surname

Derived from Hungarian rigo.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rigo» (Slovak), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 1,049 people named Rigo live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

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Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 496
Santa Fe 132
Misiones 130
Córdoba 65
Mendoza 56
City of Buenos Aires 55
Tucumán 34
San Luis 31

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 437 people named Rigo live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.

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Where they live today

Liège 246
Limburg 69
Namur 42
Hainaut 27
Brussels-Capital 20
Antwerp 20
Walloon Brabant 8
Flemish Brabant 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 384 people named Rigo.

163 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 36 départements, most often Paris.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 163
Paris 26
Loire 17
Gironde 17
Bouches-du-Rhône 14
Moselle 12
Lot-et-Garonne 12
Alpes-Maritimes 10
Haute-Garonne 9

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

182 people named Rigo live in Switzerland.

They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Basel-Landschaft 39
Vaud 30
Zurich 27
Geneva 25
Valais 16
Ticino 16
Aargau 10
Bern 5

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

76 people named Rigo is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 76

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Rigo,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Michel Rigo
    Michel Rigo 1772–1814 · mathematician
  • Anaïs de Bassanville
    Anaïs de Bassanville 1803–1884 · writer
  • Jules Rigo 1810–1880 · painter
  • Edouard Rigo 1813–1876 · publisher
  • Angelo Rigo 1901–
  • Blai Bonet 1926–1997 · writer

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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