Ripley

Where Ripley comes from

From the Old English folk name for the Anglian tribe, *Hrype + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ripley
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1988
    First appearance
    #6,666 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2025
    Peak, #1,029
    243 babies named Ripley — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.