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.
Where Ridley is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#1,111 · 1 in 8,756
- Georgia#1,216 · 1 in 8,370
- California#1,687 · 1 in 19,497
Best ever in a state: #386 in Tennessee, 1935.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #1,111 | 6 | 1 in 8,756 |
| Georgia | #1,216 | 6 | 1 in 8,370 |
| California | #1,687 | 9 | 1 in 19,497 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 16,919 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 88.4% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,990Kristen96
- #1,990Maylani96
- #1,990Venus96
- #2,002Ridley95
- #2,002Amberly95
- #2,002Audra95
- #2,002Azeneth95
- #2,017Addelyn94
- #2,017Aerith94
- #2,017Aithana94
Tied with 14 names at #2,002; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 24,057 of them was named Ridley, which outranked 85.1% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #2,056Pax72
- #2,056Safwan72
- #2,056Taylin72
- #2,077Ridley71
- #2,077Aharon71
- #2,077Akeem71
- #2,077Alpha71
- #2,091Ahron70
- #2,091Arion70
- #2,091Aubrey70
Tied with 13 names at #2,077; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.