Meaning not yet researched.
Ripley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 243 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,032 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 61% of babies named Ripley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,032 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ripley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 243 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,032 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 243 (2025).
In 2025, 243 US girls were named Ripley, making it the 1,032nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 217 places from #1,249 in 2024. That is 56 more than the 187 girls named Ripley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,032, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 243. For comparison, it was #2,038 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 156 US boys were named Ripley, making it the 1,266th most common boys’ name of the year, up 128 places from #1,394 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 135 boys named Ripley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,266, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #3,667 in 2015 and #3,616 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ripley in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 3,590 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,841 babies named Ripley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,817 US girls were named Ripley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 243. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,614 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ripley ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #349 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Riplee and Rippley are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Riplee (102), Rippley (17).
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 Ripley 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 11 | #349 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #432 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #535 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #644 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #671 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #733 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #759 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #774 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #794 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #805 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #845 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #862 | — |
| California | 31 | #935 | #1,422 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,161 | #1,448 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,251 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,256 | #2,813 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,373 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,360 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 243 | #1,032 | 156 | #1,266 |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,249 | 135 | #1,394 |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,184 | 118 | #1,506 |
| 2022 | 207 | #1,171 | 108 | #1,621 |
| 2021 | 171 | #1,320 | 76 | #1,980 |
| 2020 | 171 | #1,297 | 66 | #2,133 |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,331 | 41 | #2,983 |
| 2018 | 192 | #1,222 | 22 | #4,579 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,540 | 26 | #4,082 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,681 | 26 | #4,071 |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,038 | 30 | #3,667 |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,408 | 22 | #4,505 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,702 | 16 | #5,595 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,037 | 11 | #7,441 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,657 | 9 | #8,627 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,943 | 8 | #9,491 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,667 | 13 | #6,734 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,737 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,782 | 10 | #8,048 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,068 | 10 | #7,879 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,936 | 15 | #5,521 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,884 | 14 | #5,735 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,559 | 8 | #8,459 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,850 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,243 | 6 | #10,284 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,422 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,423 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,308 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,204 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,314 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,208 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,493 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,492 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,950 | 5 | #9,514 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,031 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,975 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,006 | — | — |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,459 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,224 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,945 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,712 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,257 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,841 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,083 |
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).