The Rigsby surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,124 people carried this name — #4,941 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 41,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 6,955 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Rigsby surname

Habitational surname from a place in Lincolnshire.

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

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Rigsby’.

An early record he cites: Willelmus de Rygby, 1379 — Poll Tax, West Riding of Yorkshire.

His entry covers Rigby and Rigsby.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 647 · public domain.

In print

Rigsby in American newspapers,
1881–1903.

Newspaper page from The Caucasian carrying the name Rigsby
The Caucasian 1903-01-14
Newspaper page from Louisiana Capitolian carrying the name Rigsby
Louisiana Capitolian 1881-08-18
Newspaper page from The Portland Daily Press carrying the name Rigsby
The Portland Daily Press 1903-02-10

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 10,164 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Rigsby in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1950s.

43 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rigsby. The most, 13, date from the 1900s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 15
Victoria 12
Queensland 5
Western Australia 5
South Australia 4
Tasmania 2

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

Who carried it

People named Rigsby,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jim Rigsby 1923–1952 · engineer

Wikidata (CC0) · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Rigsby,
in the records of 3 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 States348 records

348 records of the Rigsby name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 239
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 72
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 19
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Paul A. Rigsby

    Born 1923 in Georgia. Enlisted 1943 at Camp Blanding, Florida; stenographer. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1984, buried at Florida National Cemetery, Florida.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Randy Marvin Rigsby

    Born 1950; from Maitland, Florida. U.S. Army, pioneer; killed in action 1971 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Elizabeth Rigsby

    Arrived at New York in 1872 aboard the Adriatic from Liverpool, aged 36; nurse.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 348 records for Rigsby in the United States.

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

Australia3 records

3 records of the Rigsby name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 2
  • Tasmanian Names Index 1
  1. 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 William Rigsby

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Layton, sailing from Sheerness in 1835. Native of Tortola.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 1 of 3 records for Rigsby in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain).

United Kingdom1 record

1 record of the Rigsby 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 J. G. Rigsby

    Cheshire Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    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).

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