Ripley — #1248 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ripley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,309 babies named Ripley between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ripley currently holds the #1248 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 207 babies received it in a single year. Ripley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 878 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ripley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 999 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ripley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 241 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ripley in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ripley 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 2,309 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.