Ridger
#9,516 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ridger has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #9,516 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Ridger, 2025
1 in 414,000
Ridger 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ridger?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,516
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ridger 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ridger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ridgers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ridger was born before 2021 — so the typical Ridger is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 67.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Ridger 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
- −1,872
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −933
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,096
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.7%
- Peak was 2022 (11)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Ridger
Ridger is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 73.4% against Ridger's 0.01%.
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.
Ridger by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ridger
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ridger
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.