Rigaux
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʁigo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rigaux is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 13K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 5Kas Rigó
- BRBrazil1 in 19Kas Rigo
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rigaux itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
11,199 named Rigo
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rigaux 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.
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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Béda Rigauxb. 1899BEBelgian franciscan and biblical scholar
- Fernand Rigauxb. 1905BEastronomer
- François Rigauxb. 1926BEBelgian judge (1926-2013)
- Benny Rigaux-Bricmontb. 1943CAprofessor at Université Laval
- Michel Rigauxb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Isabelle Rigauxb. 1952BEBelgian singer
- Dominique Rigauxb. 1953FRFrench historian & academic
- Sandrine Rigauxb. 1973FRFrench actress
- Éric Rigauxb. 1977FRFrench politician
- Lewis Rigauxb. 1990BEBelgian cyclist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 878 | #1,582 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 821 | #1,702 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
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
- How do you pronounce Rigaux?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁigo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Rigaux have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Rigo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rigaux most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rigaux is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rigaux?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 878 people named Rigaux in 2008, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rigaux?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rigauxThe 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, “Rigaux”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.