Rigoberto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic Rigoberht, 'bright, glorious prince' (rik + berht)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ri.ɣ̞oˈβ̞eɾ.t̪o/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Rigoberto is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 52nd most common given name.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 580(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 840
- PAPanama≈1 in 1K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 582 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanic Rigoberht, 'bright, glorious prince' (rik + berht).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rigoberto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #267 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 878 | Rigoberto | 182 |
| US United States | — | 26,883 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Rigoberto | 338 |
| HN Honduras | #52 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 582 | — | Rigoberto | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | #470 | 8,458 | 1 in 3.4K | 8.5K | Rigoberto | 46 |
| SV El Salvador | #182 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 837 | — | Rigoberto | 48 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 22 | — | 38 |
| CR Costa Rica | #99 | 3,609 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.6K | Rigoberto | 57 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Rigoberto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Rigobert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rigoberto López Pérezb. 1929NINicaraguan poet, music composer and assassin of Anastasio Somoza García (1929–1956)
- Rigoberto Guzmánb. 1932SVSalvadoran footballer (1932-2014)
- Rigoberto Cisnerosb. 1953MXMexican footballer
- Rigoberto Gonzálezb. 1970USAmerican writer
- Rigoberto Perezcanob. 1973MXMexican film director
- Rigoberto Álvarezb. 1978MXboxer
- Rigoberto Padillab. 1985HNHonduran footballer
- Rigoberto Uránb. 1987COroad bicycle racer
- Rigoberto Rivasb. 1998HNHonduran association football player
- Rigoberto Castañedascreenwriter
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27K | #1,341 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 8.5K | #163 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.6K | #211 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 878 | #93 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 297 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 295 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 288 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 288 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 280 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 279 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 273 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 272 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Rigoberto mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic Rigoberht, 'bright, glorious prince' (rik + berht). Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Rigoberto a male or female name?
- Rigoberto is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and Mexico (RENAPO), among others.
- How do you pronounce Rigoberto?
- In Spanish /ri.ɣ̞oˈβ̞eɾ.t̪o/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Rigoberto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Rigoberto in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rigoberto.
- How common is the name Rigoberto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,883 people named Rigoberto in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Rigoberto compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Rigoberto is the 267th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rigobertoThe 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, “Rigoberto” — the 267th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.