Ridley — #2234 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ridley

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,457 babies named Ridley between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ridley currently holds the #2234 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 92 babies received it in a single year. Ridley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,269 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ridley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 652 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Ridley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ridley in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ridley 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 1,457 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.