Ranger
#1,582 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ranger has been given to 1,518 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,582 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 126 recorded.
Babies named Ranger, 2025
1 in 30,700
Ranger over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ranger?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 30,700
- 108 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 15,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,582
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 21,278 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ranger sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rangers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranger was born before 2019 — so the typical Ranger is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,518
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (683).
Is Ranger rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −57
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +70
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +934
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.16×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2022 (126)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.9% average annual change
Spellings of Ranger
Ranger is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 47.3% against Ranger's 0.16%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ranger is used
Across 2016–2025, Ranger was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 22,514 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 12,500
- 2Tennessee1 in 14,286
- 3West Virginia1 in 14,286
- 4Missouri1 in 16,667
- 5Ohio1 in 16,667
- 6Indiana1 in 20,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 8Nevada1 in 20,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Ranger around the world
Where Ranger ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2020–2025#4,275in 2025
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ranger by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ranger
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ranger
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.