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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#64 · 1 in 156
- Idaho#97 · 1 in 345
- Montana#127 · 1 in 376
- South Dakota#127 · 1 in 384
- Utah#158 · 1 in 578
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #64 | 7 | 1 in 156 |
| Idaho | #97 | 25 | 1 in 345 |
| Montana | #127 | 10 | 1 in 376 |
| South Dakota | #127 | 10 | 1 in 384 |
| Utah | #158 | 34 | 1 in 578 |
| Nebraska | #244 | 10 | 1 in 882 |
| Kansas | #246 | 15 | 1 in 936 |
| Arkansas | #247 | 14 | 1 in 899 |
| Oregon | #263 | 16 | 1 in 941 |
| Missouri | #291 | 23 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Tennessee | #299 | 29 | 1 in 1,268 |
| Alabama | #301 | 18 | 1 in 1,195 |
| Iowa | #310 | 12 | 1 in 1,152 |
| Louisiana | #314 | 16 | 1 in 1,196 |
| Oklahoma | #328 | 14 | 1 in 1,263 |
| West Virginia | #330 | 5 | 1 in 1,232 |
| Mississippi | #333 | 9 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Kentucky | #345 | 14 | 1 in 1,467 |
| Virginia | #408 | 19 | 1 in 1,961 |
| Wisconsin | #437 | 11 | 1 in 2,130 |
| Georgia | #499 | 21 | 1 in 2,391 |
| Colorado | #501 | 11 | 1 in 2,441 |
| South Carolina | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Washington | #529 | 13 | 1 in 2,523 |
| North Carolina | #539 | 18 | 1 in 2,859 |
| Ohio | #577 | 17 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Arizona | #594 | 11 | 1 in 2,975 |
| Michigan | #601 | 13 | 1 in 3,092 |
| Pennsylvania | #631 | 14 | 1 in 3,733 |
| Indiana | #668 | 9 | 1 in 3,518 |
| Texas | #723 | 38 | 1 in 4,607 |
| Illinois | #752 | 11 | 1 in 4,505 |
| Maryland | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Florida | #1,009 | 13 | 1 in 7,349 |
| California | #1,040 | 20 | 1 in 8,774 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 321,453 of them was named Ridge, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 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 3,018 of them was named Ridge, which outranked 96.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).