Ranger — #1529 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ranger

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,409 babies named Ranger between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ranger currently holds the #1529 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 126 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ranger performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 592 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ranger shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 180 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ranger in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ranger in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,409 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.