Riga

Etymology 1
From, of disputed origin:
 * Possibly from, referring to the ancient natural harbor formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava river.
 * Possibly a form of, the name for the , a tributary of the Daugava river.
 * Possibly from, the j becoming a g in German (note that geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that  historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of  from ).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Riga
 * Albanian:, Rigë
 * Arabic: رِيغَا, رِيجَا
 * Egyptian Arabic: ريجا
 * Hijazi Arabic: ريقا
 * Armenian: Ռիգա
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Ры́га, Ры́ґа
 * Bengali: রিগা
 * Bulgarian: Ри́га
 * Burmese: ရီဂါ
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Рі́ґа
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 里加
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: Riga
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: רִיגָה
 * Hindi: रीगा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Ríga
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: Ríge
 * Italian: Riga
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Рига
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: Рига
 * Lao: ຣີກາ
 * Latgalian: Reiga
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: Rīgõ
 * Macedonian: Рига
 * Malay: Riga
 * Maltese: Riga
 * Marathi: रिगा
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Рига
 * Navajo: Wiiga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto: ريګا
 * Persian: ریگا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਰੀਗਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Рига
 * Roman: Riga
 * Silesian: Ryga
 * Slovak: Riga
 * Slovene: Riga
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: Рига
 * Tamil: ரீகா
 * Tatar: Рига
 * Thai: รีกา
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Riga
 * Ukrainian:, Ри́ґа
 * Urdu: ریگا
 * Uyghur: رىگا
 * Uzbek: Riga
 * Vietnamese: Ri-ga
 * Yiddish: ריגע

Etymology 2
Borrowed from and.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Riga is the 40082nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 547 individuals. Riga is most common among White (93.78%) individuals.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, where the origin is disputed:
 * Possibly from, referring to the ancient natural harbor formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava river.
 * Possibly a form of, the name for the , a tributary of the Daugava river.
 * Possibly from, the j becoming a g in German (note that geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that  historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of  from , from ,  or from , both from , from earlier.

Etymology
From.