Ranger
#1,571 for boys in 2025, 108 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 126 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,518since 1958
Ranger over time
Rank among boys' names. Ranger has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,571 | 108 |
| 2024 | #1,521 | 116 |
| 2023 | #1,501 | 118 |
| 2022 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2021 | #1,503 | 118 |
| 2020 | #1,647 | 97 |
| 2019 | #1,534 | 110 |
| 2018 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #1,935 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,028 | 70 |
| 2015 | #2,486 | 50 |
| 2014 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #2,528 | 48 |
| 2012 | #2,716 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
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| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
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| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ranger! It came in at #3,944, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ranger
- 50 spots since 2024 (#1,521 → #1,571)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#1,647 → #1,571)
- 915 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #1,571)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2022 at #1,440 (126 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,857 boys born in 2022 were named Ranger (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,816 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.0% of all boys named Ranger (683) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,944 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 63 | #4,791 (1995) | #6,648 |
| 2000s | 175 | #3,591 (2007) | #5,201 |
| 2010s | 592 | #1,534 (2019) | #2,415 |
| 2020s | 683 | #1,440 (2022) | #1,531 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ranger in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 14,826 of them was named Ranger, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,496Scout119
- #1,496Taysom119
- #1,496Townes119
- #1,503Ranger118
- #1,503Cree118
- #1,503Guy118
- #1,503Izael118
- #1,514Deion117
- #1,514Devonte117
- #1,514Humberto117
Tied with 10 names at #1,503; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.