Ridge
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #529 for boys in 2025, 566 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 599 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,893since 1948
Ridge over time
Rank among boys' names. Ridge has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | #14,942 | 5 | #529 | 566 |
| 2024 | — | #527 | 565 | |
| 2023 | — | #505 | 599 | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #531 | 562 |
| 2021 | — | #560 | 506 | |
| 2020 | — | #625 | 429 | |
| 2019 | — | #614 | 443 | |
| 2018 | — | #703 | 344 | |
| 2017 | — | #734 | 325 | |
| 2016 | — | #878 | 249 | |
| 2015 | — | #934 | 226 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,137 | 167 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,090 | 170 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,218 | 146 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,371 | 122 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,299 | 132 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,298 | 135 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,639 | 94 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,681 | 90 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,413 | 111 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,343 | 112 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,502 | 89 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,430 | 92 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,424 | 91 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,415 | 88 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,487 | 82 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,277 | 96 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,146 | 109 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,045 | 122 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,088 | 111 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,090 | 108 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,017 | 119 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,038 | 113 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,058 | 107 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,103 | 98 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,065 | 99 | |
| 1989 | — | #997 | 105 | |
| 1988 | — | #970 | 99 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ridge! It came in at #2,326, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ridge is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#410 · 1 in 2,883
- Utah#440 · 1 in 3,187
- Louisiana#509 · 1 in 3,359
- Ohio#552 · 1 in 6,364
- Virginia#603 · 1 in 6,433
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #410 | 7 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Utah | #440 | 6 | 1 in 3,187 |
| Louisiana | #509 | 8 | 1 in 3,359 |
| Ohio | #552 | 11 | 1 in 6,364 |
| Missouri | #603 | 5 | 1 in 6,880 |
| Virginia | #603 | 6 | 1 in 6,433 |
| Florida | #906 | 8 | 1 in 10,735 |
| Georgia | #933 | 5 | 1 in 10,037 |
| Texas | #1,465 | 6 | 1 in 26,178 |
| California | #2,084 | 5 | 1 in 49,117 |
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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 Ridge
- 2 spots since 2024 (#527 → #529)
- 96 spots since 2020 (#625 → #529)
- 405 spots since 2015 (#934 → #529)
- Biggest jump: 1,245 spots in 1988 (#2,215 → #970)
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 1990 (#997 → #1,065)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 2023 at #505 (599 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,856 boys born in 2023 were named Ridge (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,018 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 40.9% of all boys named Ridge (3,227) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 11 | #2,326 (1948) | #2,326 |
| 1950s | 30 | #3,176 (1954) | #3,453 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,065 (1961) | #4,065 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 230 | #970 (1988) | #1,394 |
| 1990s | 1,082 | #1,017 (1994) | #1,093 |
| 2000s | 984 | #1,298 (2009) | #1,463 |
| 2010s | 2,324 | #614 (2019) | #998 |
| 2020s | 3,227 | #505 (2023) | #546 |
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.
Ridge in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 15,452 of them was named Ridge, which outranked 90.3% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,040London123
- #1,040Prince123
- #1,040Vladimir123
- #1,045Ridge122
- #1,045Chester122
- #1,045Kirkland122
- #1,045Lyle122
- #1,051Gideon121
- #1,051Hasan121
- #1,051Jelani121
Tied with 5 names at #1,045; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.