Ridley
#2,002 for girls in 2025, 95 births · #2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
Given to boys 52.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 89 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,528since 1915
Ridley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,002 | 95 | #2,077 | 71 |
| 2024 | #1,925 | 103 | #2,236 | 64 |
| 2023 | #1,865 | 107 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #1,918 | 104 | #1,981 | 77 |
| 2021 | #1,980 | 98 | #1,750 | 92 |
| 2020 | #1,893 | 101 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | #1,833 | 111 | #1,938 | 76 |
| 2018 | #1,677 | 124 | #1,733 | 89 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | #1,875 | 79 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 | #2,063 | 68 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #2,065 | 65 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
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| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ridley! It came in at #2,829, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ridley
- 159 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,077)
- 205 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #2,077)
- 112 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,077)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2018 at #1,733 (89 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,016 boys born in 2021 were named Ridley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,733 in 2018, was only 1 in 20,406 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all boys named Ridley (652) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 16 | #2,829 (1915) | #2,972 |
| 1920s | 29 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,921 |
| 1930s | 47 | #2,638 (1932) | #3,147 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,690 (1946) | #3,115 |
| 1950s | 31 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,454 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,721 (1986) | #6,721 |
| 1990s | 33 | #7,422 (1992) | #8,408 |
| 2000s | 228 | #2,894 (2009) | #4,646 |
| 2010s | 652 | #1,733 (2018) | #2,167 |
| 2020s | 455 | #1,750 (2021) | #1,997 |
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.
Ridley in 1915
Top boys' names in 1915
More about 1915
boys
848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 106,072 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 35.6% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).