Meaning not yet researched.
Rip: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,575 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,575 in 2021; #2,348 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rip in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,348 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,575.
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Rip: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,575 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 111 (2021).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Rip, making it the 2,348th most common boys’ name of the year, down 236 places from #2,112 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 71 boys named Rip in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,575, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 111. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,976 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rip in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 5 babies. In all, 688 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 472 babies named Rip.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 496 US boys were named Rip; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rip ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,792 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ripp (598 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Rip 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,792 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 59 | #2,348 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,112 |
| 2023 | — | — | 76 | #2,013 |
| 2022 | — | — | 101 | #1,698 |
| 2021 | — | — | 111 | #1,575 |
| 2020 | — | — | 54 | #2,435 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,748 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,955 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,979 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,090 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,638 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,584 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,501 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,153 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,858 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,847 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,816 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,644 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,303 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,833 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,390 |
| 1958 | — | — | 15 | #2,156 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,356 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,933 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,246 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,817 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,977 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,937 |
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).