Ranger
Ranger was given to 108 boys in 2025, #1,582 among boys’ names; 1,518 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Ranger and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ranger by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ranger?
#1,582 among boys’ names, 2025
Ranger rose from #2,516 in 2015 to #1,582 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.1 to 63.2 per million.
126 babies in 2022, the peak
Ranger peaked in 2022, when 126 boys were given it, #1,444 among boys’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,582 | 63.2 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,525 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,505 | 69.0 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,444 | 72.2 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,512 | 67.4 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,652 | 56.2 |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,540 | 61.3 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,953 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 74 | #1,954 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,038 | 36.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,516 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,393 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,554 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,753 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,289 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,427 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,394 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,205 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,665 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,967 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,911 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,425 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,168 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,324 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,340 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,919 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,703 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,378 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,755 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,044 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,229 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,445 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,099 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,988 | 3.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,375 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ranger a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ranger has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ranger: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ranger, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,518 Americans ever recorded as Ranger. The median Ranger alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 946 people named Ranger (18 women and girls, 928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 851 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 297 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ranger born?
The states with the most babies named Ranger are Texas, Tennessee and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,206 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #905 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,402 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,429 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,506 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,115 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,390 | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #846 | 0.2× |
Where Ranger is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ranger is most over-represented in Texas: since 1958 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ranger with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ranger
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ranger and names like it
- Compare Ranger and BowenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRanger peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ranger since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ranger.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ranger alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.