Rígel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Rígel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 760 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: A corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name رِجْل الْجَبَّار (rijl al-jabbār, literally “foot of the great one”).
- ALAlbania1 in 54K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268K
- USUnited States1 in 438K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
760 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rigel in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name رِجْل الْجَبَّار (rijl al-jabbār, literally “foot of the great one”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rígel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 760 | 1 in 438K | 633 | Rigel | 105 |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Rigel | 38 |
| AL Albania | 57 | 1 in 54K | 56 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 26 | Rigel | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | 6 | 1 in 850K | 6 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
760 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rígel mean, and where does it come from?
- A corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name رِجْل الْجَبَّار (rijl al-jabbār, literally “foot of the great one”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Rígel a male or female name?
- Rígel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Rígel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 760 people named Rígel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rigel. After it come Brazil, Albania, Sweden and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rígel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rígel is densest in Albania — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rígel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 760 people named Rígel in 2020, about 1 in 438 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rígel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%ADgelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rígel” — ranked 15197th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.