Rigó

surname · Latin script

Meaning: thrush (any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/riɡoː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rigó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 5K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary≈1 in 12K
  • BEBelgium1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

11,199 people

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

thrush (any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rigó 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.

Where Rigó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—11,1991 in 19K11K——
ES Spain—1,8951 in 26K1.9K—2
SK Slovakia#9511,0841 in 5K1.1KRigó41
AR Argentina—1,0491 in 43K1K——
HU Hungary#651≈800 est.≈1 in 12K—Rigó49
BE Belgium—7541 in 16K754——

11,199 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rigó is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese

    Also written Rigo, Rïgö, Rïgo, Rígo, Rigö

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Rigo, Rigoe, Rigõ, Rigò, Rìgo

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rigo, Rigò

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Rigo

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Cameroon

    Also written Rigo, Rigô, Rigò, Rîgo

  • Danish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Rigo, Rigö

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rigo

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Rigo, Риго

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jancsi Rigó, b. 1858Magda Rigó, b. 1910Alajos Rigó, b. 1916Béla Rigó, b. 1942Mária Rigó, b. 1943János Rigó, b. 1948Sándor Buffó Rigó, b. 1949László Kiss-Rigó, b. 1955Sándor Rigó, b. 1965

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalTisztelt Rigó!Dear Rigó, (English)
InformalTisztelt Rigó!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Rigó
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)19951.1K—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Rigó mean, and where does it come from?
thrush (any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Rigó?
A machine transcription gives /riɡoː/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Rigó have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Rigó, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Rigó most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rigó is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rigó?
In Brazil, the national register counted 11,199 people named Rigó, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Rigó compared with other names?
In Hungary, Rigó is the 651st most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rigó” — the 651st most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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