Ridge
Ridge was given to 566 boys in 2025, #530 among boys’ names; 7,911 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,790 Americans named Ridge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ridge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ridge mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ridge is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From ridge. Originating from Middle English.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ridge?
#530 among boys’ names, 2025
Ridge rose from #937 in 2015 to #530 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.33 per 1,000.
599 babies in 2023, the peak
Ridge peaked in 2023, when 599 boys were given it, #505 among boys’ names. The 571 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 566 | #530 | 0.33 |
| 2024 | 565 | #529 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 599 | #505 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 562 | #531 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 506 | #560 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 429 | #629 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 443 | #617 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 344 | #706 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 325 | #735 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 249 | #880 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 226 | #937 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 167 | #1,140 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,095 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 146 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,375 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,306 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,300 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,651 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,695 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,416 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,512 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,435 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,419 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 82 | #1,491 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,276 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,154 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,047 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,089 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,092 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,015 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 113 | #1,037 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,060 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,067 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 105 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 99 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ridge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ridge has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ridge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ridge, and how old are they?
7,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,911 Americans ever recorded as Ridge. The median Ridge alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,343 people named Ridge (22 women and girls, 4,321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,700 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 945 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,130 |
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 Ridge born?
The states with the most babies named Ridge are Texas, Utah and Tennessee, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 38 | #728 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 34 | #166 | 4.4× |
| Tennessee | 29 | #306 | 1.6× |
| Idaho | 25 | #103 | 4.8× |
| Missouri | 23 | #300 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 21 | #513 | 1.5× |
| California | 20 | #1,075 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 19 | #429 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #564 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 18 | #311 | 1.4× |
Where Ridge is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ridge is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1948 it was given 4.8 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 Ridge with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,101 babies since 1880, Ridge is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 571 of their 579 babies (99%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ridge
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 Ridge and names like it
- Compare Ridge and RydgeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRidge peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ridge since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ridge: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ridge.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ridge alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.