Meaning not yet researched.
Ridge: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 566 in 2025. Its best rank was #505 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #505 in 2023; #530 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Ridge in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#530 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #505.
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Ridge: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 566 boys in 2025. Peak: #505 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 599 (2023).
In 2025, 566 US boys were named Ridge, making it the 530th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #529 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 565 boys named Ridge in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #505, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 599. For comparison, it was #937 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ridge in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 11 babies. In all, 7,911 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,245 babies named Ridge.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,588 US boys were named Ridge; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 599. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,018 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ridge ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #68 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Rydge and Redge are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rydge (190), Redge (24).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ridge in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 7 | #68 | — |
| Idaho | 25 | #103 | #215 |
| Montana | 10 | #141 | #281 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #142 | — |
| Utah | 34 | #166 | #315 |
| Kansas | 15 | #259 | — |
| Nebraska | 10 | #264 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #264 | #624 |
| Oregon | 16 | #277 | — |
| Missouri | 23 | #300 | #808 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #306 | #582 |
| Alabama | 18 | #311 | #440 |
| Iowa | 12 | #328 | — |
| Louisiana | 16 | #330 | #531 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #348 | #625 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #363 | #610 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #363 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #370 | #588 |
| Virginia | 19 | #429 | #1,109 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #471 | — |
| Georgia | 21 | #513 | #566 |
| Colorado | 11 | #530 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #543 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #561 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #564 | #695 |
| Ohio | 17 | #591 | #1,059 |
| Arizona | 11 | #619 | #658 |
| Michigan | 13 | #633 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #653 | #1,013 |
| Indiana | 9 | #706 | — |
| Texas | 38 | #728 | #1,348 |
| Illinois | 11 | #790 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #898 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,045 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,075 | #2,501 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,754 | 566 | #530 |
| 2024 | — | — | 565 | #529 |
| 2023 | — | — | 599 | #505 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,431 | 562 | #531 |
| 2021 | — | — | 506 | #560 |
| 2020 | — | — | 429 | #629 |
| 2019 | — | — | 443 | #617 |
| 2018 | — | — | 344 | #706 |
| 2017 | — | — | 325 | #735 |
| 2016 | — | — | 249 | #880 |
| 2015 | — | — | 226 | #937 |
| 2014 | — | — | 167 | #1,140 |
| 2013 | — | — | 170 | #1,095 |
| 2012 | — | — | 146 | #1,220 |
| 2011 | — | — | 122 | #1,375 |
| 2010 | — | — | 132 | #1,306 |
| 2009 | — | — | 135 | #1,300 |
| 2008 | — | — | 94 | #1,651 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,695 |
| 2006 | — | — | 111 | #1,416 |
| 2005 | — | — | 112 | #1,352 |
| 2004 | — | — | 89 | #1,514 |
| 2003 | — | — | 92 | #1,437 |
| 2002 | — | — | 91 | #1,432 |
| 2001 | — | — | 88 | #1,423 |
| 2000 | — | — | 82 | #1,495 |
| 1999 | — | — | 96 | #1,279 |
| 1998 | — | — | 109 | #1,157 |
| 1997 | — | — | 122 | #1,049 |
| 1996 | — | — | 111 | #1,091 |
| 1995 | — | — | 108 | #1,095 |
| 1994 | — | — | 119 | #1,019 |
| 1993 | — | — | 113 | #1,041 |
| 1992 | — | — | 107 | #1,063 |
| 1991 | — | — | 98 | #1,112 |
| 1990 | — | — | 99 | #1,071 |
| 1989 | — | — | 105 | #1,001 |
| 1988 | — | — | 99 | #977 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,258 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,539 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,158 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,144 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,422 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).