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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Rigel

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#5,158

up +967 places

2025 births

19

up +4 births

All-time births

632

3% of them in 2025

More common than

85%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2016
34 births
Best rank
#3,349
in 2016
First recorded
1976
#5,467 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2007
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
47 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201634#3,349Peak
  2. 201834#3,357
  3. 201527#3,966
  4. 201726#4,081
  5. 202123#4,461

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,349 in 2016 · peak births 34 in 2016

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

632 boys · 10 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Rigel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.