Name Awesome

Ridge

#530 in 2025Boys' name

English word name: ridge

Ridge has been given to 7,911 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #530 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 599 recorded.

Babies named Ridge, 2025

1 in 5,860

Ridge over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ridge: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: ridge

surname transfer

What Ridge means

Ridge takes the English word ridge into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Ridge is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Ridge is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,893 boys were recorded with the name Ridge between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 599 in 2023; its best national rank was #505 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #629 in 2020 to #530 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #937 in 2015 to #530 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Ridge between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,426 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ridge?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,860
566 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,020
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#530
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,061 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ridge sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,061 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ridge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ridges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ridge was born before 2018 — so the typical Ridge is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,882
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (3,227).

Is Ridge 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
−1
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+99
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+407
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.5%
Peak was 2023 (599)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#505
2023

Spellings of Ridge

Ridge is not the most common spelling — Rodger is, with 42.8% against Ridge's 15.7%.

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 Ridge is used

Across 2016–2025, Ridge was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 398 boys, against 1 in 3,365 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

2251 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 398
  2. 2Idaho1 in 469
  3. 3Utah1 in 562
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 694
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 952
  6. 6Wyoming1 in 1,010
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 1,220
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 1,220

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.

Geographically, Ridge is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ridge around the world

Where Ridge 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.

  • France
    1990–2005
    #3,988
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ridge

People whose public names include Ridge, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ridge by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#530
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 99
Best rank ever
#505
2023
Peak year
2023
599 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,893
Count in 2025
566

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,750
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,426
2022
Peak year
2022
13 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ridge

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RiderJudgeRidleyRidwanDodgeTalmadgeEldridgeRiddickRidhaanRydgeRidgerKnowledgeRidaRidhanBridgeEdgeGadgeRidhwanRiddikRidhaRutledgeElridgeRidgelyRidhay

Names with a curve like Ridge

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ridge, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BooneMusaLuccaBaylorDarielSuttonAzariahBriarShilohZaireAnakinNiko

Sibling names for Ridge

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Ridge

Top names of 2023, Ridge's peak yearThe 2020s in fullOther names that peaked in 2023Boys' names starting with REarthy Boy NamesMountain NamesNature Names