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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 13,718 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 90.8% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,672Lidia125
- #1,672Raine125
- #1,672Tina125
- #1,677Ridley124
- #1,677Daria124
- #1,677Ema124
- #1,677Janie124
- #1,685Aiza123
- #1,685Arwen123
- #1,685Constance123
Tied with 7 names at #1,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 20,406 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 87.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,724Konrad90
- #1,724Kurt90
- #1,724Lucio90
- #1,733Ridley89
- #1,733Aharon89
- #1,733Arvin89
- #1,733Braulio89
- #1,744Aris88
- #1,744Avrohom88
- #1,744Azai88
Tied with 10 names at #1,733; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.