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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 21,096 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 88.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,247Susie85
- #2,247Tamar85
- #2,247Vicky85
- #2,269Ridley84
- #2,269Aarohi84
- #2,269Addelynn84
- #2,269Adelle84
- #2,287Aleia83
- #2,287Aminata83
- #2,287Brook83
Tied with 17 names at #2,269; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 24,022 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 86.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,863Samarth80
- #1,863Tyshawn80
- #1,863Zackery80
- #1,875Ridley79
- #1,875Aharon79
- #1,875Andrey79
- #1,875Benito79
- #1,890Cru78
- #1,890Egypt78
- #1,890Heston78
Tied with 14 names at #1,875; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.