Meaning not yet researched.
Ridley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 95 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,684 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,684 in 2018; #2,013 in 2025. About 57% of babies named Ridley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,013 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,684.
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Ridley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 95 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,684 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 124 (2018).
In 2025, 95 US girls were named Ridley, making it the 2,013th most common girls’ name of the year, down 75 places from #1,938 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 103 girls named Ridley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,684, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #2,548 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 71 US boys were named Ridley, making it the 2,089th most common boys’ name of the year, up 166 places from #2,255 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 64 boys named Ridley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,742, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 92, in 2021. For comparison, it was #2,203 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ridley in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 8 babies. In all, 2,892 US babies have been given the name, 47% of them girls and 53% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,293 babies named Ridley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,002 US girls were named Ridley; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 124. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,919 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ridley ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #795 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ridlee are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ridlee (48).
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 Ridley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 8 | #795 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,361 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,373 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,409 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,355 | #2,171 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | #2,013 | 71 | #2,089 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,938 | 64 | #2,255 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,876 | 72 | #2,074 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,928 | 77 | #1,994 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,989 | 92 | #1,760 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,903 | 79 | #1,890 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,839 | 76 | #1,948 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,684 | 89 | #1,742 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,423 | 72 | #1,996 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,284 | 79 | #1,886 |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,548 | 62 | #2,203 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,512 | 68 | #2,078 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,407 | 65 | #2,085 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,082 | 51 | #2,477 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,329 | 39 | #2,988 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,444 | 51 | #2,463 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,762 | 41 | #2,937 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,757 | 37 | #3,153 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,022 | 23 | #4,341 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,786 | 25 | #3,971 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,334 | 20 | #4,427 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,617 | 28 | #3,436 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,272 | 21 | #4,079 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,904 | 15 | #5,090 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,608 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,760 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,641 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,216 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,995 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,945 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,470 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,243 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,582 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,223 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,862 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,288 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,742 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,646 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,161 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,869 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,688 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,160 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,112 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,469 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,899 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,562 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,679 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,450 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,622 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,685 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,710 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,405 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,242 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,328 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,016 |
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).